Oh yeah, automation in China is on a whole different level. Incidentally, this is why the whole narrative about the demographic decline in China is pure nonsense. People in the west don't understand that China is rapidly eliminating the need for a lot of manual labor, while the workforce is transitioning to high skill jobs.

america really has no fucking clue what its getting into, does it

thank god our enemies are stupid

Cut to two years later, Russia's economy has become bigger than Germany's and set to continue growing while the latter is in recession.