They had a long run up, but they nailed automating manufacturing whilst the big car making countries are stuck with enormous labour forces they can’t get rid of and can’t afford the capex for automation and couldn’t get it through politically. Think about the Japanese and Kaizen - they were so fucking proud of that shit. China just built robots which did everything way better than their principled human-oriented operations. People still think China is all cheap slave labour - it’s not. They’re way ahead on automation and robotics. We’re starting to get their robots in shops and hotels in Vietnam now despite labour here being extremely cheap; it’s early, but so many jobs are going to go away over the next 10 years. It’s showed up in cars first but be ready for China to create dominate entirely new industries like the US used to. That’s coming next.