Suspect that Chinas huge lead in robotics will be combined with AI to give them even more advantage in industrial productivity. The Chinese view AI in a more pragmatic way to the west. AI can solve problems quickly in human like fashion but it cannot achieve consciousness IMO that can only be achieved when you have a biological body. Thus applying AI to robotics and other mechanistic problem solving tasks may be a more pragmatic and profitable approach...and this appears to be more what China is doing.