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Remember, that china is way more fucked than Japan. Japan grew old when AI wasn't a thing. The most brvtal trvthnvke is that everything aligned imperfectly for China. Its demographic dividend (large young population) swept up the manufacturing on the planet in the 90s-2000s. The hyper-industrialization and intellectual dividend of today will now facilitate their fourth industrial revolution of automation as their blue collar force is retiring over the next decades.