cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/50900195

https://archive.md/kzbKS

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.

“Their cost and the quality of their vehicles is far superior to what I see in the West,” Farley warned in July.

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.

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.

“We visited a dark factory producing some astronomical number of mobile phones,” recalls Greg Jackson, the boss of British energy supplier Octopus.

In Britain, Shenzhen-based BYD multiplied its September sales by a factor of 10 this year – overtaking far more established brands such as Mini, Renault and Land Rover.

  • Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org
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    13 hours ago

    A few weeks ago there was a report on some US VC investors who made a similar trip to China and were then ‘terrified’ … Now this. Is it somewhat similar to the influencer trips to Xinjiang that then tell the world that the genocide of Uyghurs is not true?

    How much do you see in such PR trips? Go a bit upstream the value chain to get the full picture …

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      Is it somewhat similar to the influencer trips to Xinjiang that then tell the world that the genocide of Uyghurs is not true?

      Am not an influencer, have been to Urumqi, should be going back in like a month or so.

      Maybe it’s the people who have never been there and whose job requires them to create/amplify hostile evidence whom are lying, and not every person who travels to Xinjiang.

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      13 hours ago

      It’s ironic that you’re making innuendo about agendaposting, when your whole account seems to be entirely dedicated solely to anti-China posts.

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          12 hours ago

          I didn’t say you were wrong, I said you were a hypocrite.

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              12 hours ago

              Ah see now you’re just being straight up dishonest now. It’s trivial for anyone to check your post history and see that this isn’t true.

              Up til now I’d given you the benefit of the doubt in assuming you were just a slight oddball with an axe to grind for personal reasons, but now it’s clear this is a troll farm account. On the block list you go.