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Anonymousabout 4 hours ago

China installed 295,000 industrial robots in 2024 — 54% of the global total — while its courts simultaneously ruled that companies cannot legally fire workers to replace them with AI. This apparent contradiction reflects a calculated bet: that a shrinking working-age population, projected to decline by 260 million by 2050, will naturally absorb the displacement that automation creates, allowing Beijing to pursue factory-floor supremacy without triggering the social unrest that accompanied earlier industrial transitions.