During the early years of the #Obama Administration, there were deep concerns over #China's outsized and entrenched role as being the "World's Factory Floor" and, more than that, their Made In China 2025 ambitions which was designed to springboard off that existing dominance into a spectrum of future manufacturing technologies like advanced automation, #robotics and #AI.
To say the least, the Obama Administration's concerns were very much ahead of the curve back then.