Information Technology and Innovation Foundation

"Washington immediately saw the plan as a rebuke of open markets and economic interdependence. “The program,” wrote the US Council on Foreign Relations, “aims to use government subsidies, mobilize state-owned enterprises, and pursue intellectual property acquisition to catch up with—and then surpass—Western technological prowess in advanced industries.” The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, which counts Apple as a member, would later characterize the plan to Congress as “an aggressive by-hook-or-by-crook strategy that involves serially manipulating the marketplace and wantonly stealing and coercing transfer of American know-how.”"

"Moreover, wages in China have soared, but they’ve soared for a reason—reflecting the skill sets of experienced workers, the competitive edge of its industrial clusters, and world-leading investments in automation. Or to put it simply, the Chinese worker comes *with* a robot. According to the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, robot adoption in China is in “a class of its own, with its national and provincial governments committing massive amounts of money to subsidize adoption of robots and other automation technology.” As of 2022, the number of industrial robots deployed in China was above 290,000, more than half the global total; in India, it was 5,400, according to the International Federation of Robotics."