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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/10/12/why-western-executives-visit-china-coming-back-terrified/
Robotics has catapulted Beijing into a dominant position
in many industries
rCLItrCOs the most humbling thing IrCOve ever seen,rCY said FordrCOs
chief executive about his recent trip to China.
After visiting a string of factories, Jim Farley was left
astonished by the technical innovations being packed into
Chinese cars rCo from self-driving software to facial
recognition.
rCLTheir cost and the quality of their vehicles is far superior
to what I see in the West,rCY Farley warned in July.
rCLWe are in a global competition with China, and itrCOs not
just EVs. And if we lose this, we do not have a future at Ford.rCY
The car industry boss is not the only Western executive to
have returned shaken following a visit to the Far East.
. . .
Sorry, but in the past decade China has gone
just WAY over and above.
US pols/mil/industries PRETEND they can compete,
but it's not true.
Go ahead, send a carrier group to defend Taiwan,
it'll be on the bottom in five minutes.
WE slacked off ... China pushed ahead full power.
US/western mil contract systems - we'll NEVER
catch up. We'll be like 2nd/3rd-world.
SWAT !
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