That's fine and good. I don't think China was supposed to have been the final stop on exporting manufacturing. I think Africa was the end goal for manufacturing, but they didn't get the triangle balanced (security, resources, workers). It would be much cheaper to make everything in Africa as you don't have to ship the resources someplace else first, just around the region for refining and manufacturing and then export it. No one has been able to solve the security problem though, that jacks the price up. I think that was the aim to having AI and robots as they'll make manufacturing in Africa cheaper. In China and the West, security and resources are practically a non-issue. The biggest difference is in China the workers are far cheaper. As it is now, China is positioned and positioning itself to have that triangle solved - security will be their military (because they've either stolen or were gifted our IP), workers won't be a problem (2 billion Chinese? and they stopped the 1 child policy, if I recall correctly), and that just leaves the resources. They are going after that now by being an international loan shark, where they take ownership of the mineral rights as payment. China knows Africa is untapped and not fully exploited.