Posted on 10/13/2025 10:08:57 AM PDT by Callahan
Robotics has catapulted Beijing into a dominant position in many industries
“It’s the most humbling thing I’ve ever seen,” said Ford’s chief executive about his recent trip to China.
After visiting a string of factories, Jim Farley was left astonished by the technical innovations being packed into Chinese cars – from self-driving software to facial recognition.
“Their cost and the quality of their vehicles is far superior to what I see in the West,” Farley warned…
“We are in a global competition with China, [and it’s not just EVs]. And if we lose this, we do not have a future at Ford.”
…Andrew Forrest, the Australian billionaire behind mining giant Fortescue – which is investing massively in green energy – says his trips to China convinced him to abandon his company’s attempts to manufacture electric vehicle powertrains in-house.
“I can take you to factories [in China] now, where you’ll basically be alongside a big conveyor and the machines come out of the floor and begin to assemble parts,” he says.
“And you’re walking alongside this conveyor, and after about 800, 900 metres, a truck drives out. There are no people – everything is robotic.”
…Other executives describe vast, “dark factories” where robots do so much of the work alone that there is no need to even leave the lights on for humans.
“The process was so heavily automated that there were no workers on the manufacturing side…
“You get this sense of a change, where China’s competitiveness has gone from being about government subsidies and low wages to a tremendous number of highly skilled, educated engineers who are innovating..
…Far from being focused on low-quality products, China is now viewed as a leader in rapidly-growing, high-value technologies…
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Please don't give the Dims ideas.
So what becomes of the workers and the UAW?
Evidently we need to quit education our enemies.
No DEI in those factories.
The UAW has many employees but very few workers.
I think I see the problem.
Ford CEO admits American cars suck and cost too much. Maybe they should do something about it.
China has a rapidly aging and falling population. Plug that fact into your rubric
An odd mixture of automation and child/slave labor. Which is more cost-effective?
“Guns, Germs, and Steel.”
Their cost and the quality of their vehicles is far superior to what I see in the West,”
The Chinese car makers don’t have a government chocking them with stupid regulations or giimme dat unions
My first thought too.
The Pubbies are setting us up for that dystopia just as much as the Dems are.
I would be suspicious of anything regarding anybody visiting anything in China. It’s a communist country. Nothing happens without the party, knowing about it and having a hand in it.
Charles Lindberg visited Nazi Germany before World War II, and was absolutely astonished and humbled by what they showed him. He went to German airfield after German airfield, and saw hundreds and hundreds of modern gleaming new planes parked wing tip to wing tip. He thought there was no way that we could beat Nazi Germany, not with the current state of aviation in the United States.
What he did not know, though, was that the Nazis were flying him from Fairfield to airfield, and getting the planes there before each airfield so he was seeing more than they had.
In the states, this category of unemployed or under-employed worker is probably going to usher in a long trial period of Universal Income. Unfortunately. And once such a program like that is begun, the majority will very quickly become dependent on it’s continuation and scheduled enhancement.
I will be fully retired by then, so I won’t be terribly effected personally either way, but for those of prime working age, it’s going to be hard to remain ambitious and self motivated, if the AI job stealing predictions become anywhere near true.
….and yet, zillions of Chinese students have zero interest in working there.
Talk to an actual person from China, here in America. You’ll realize these “American executives “ are either plants or milquetoast losers.
Indeed, this article reads like the same kind of propaganda we got in the 80s, about the superiority of the Soviets.
Ping to my rely below yours.
Agreed.
If they’re so advanced in these areas, I don’t understand why so many Chinese consumer products are so poorly made and unsatisfactory.
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