>>520773502 (OP)
Yea no joke.
China will be very slow about it, because before now they've pretty much copied everything we've done. But having done that, they're exploring the new frontiers.
However the USA is a heavily capitalist country, and as such they fear monger AI, we aren't producing a new fusion reactor like China or working on free or better energy, and China is already ahead in robotics.
Why? Because all these things combined breaks capitalism.
When free energy fuels robots with advanced AI they do all the jobs and there'll have to be something like universal basic income.
That's socialism. Not capitalism. Capitalism demands people work all their lives for chump change. And again it's why our capitalist country scare monger's AI constantly, they're hesitant to create or employ robots, and where's our energy experiments? They don't exist. Capitalist countries, especially the USA, will drag it's heels into the future kicking and screaming. So it's left up to China but as I said before, they'll be kind of slow about it.
But the future will come one way or another and when it does capitalism won't exist in that environment because it can not.