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July 7, 2026EN

China's AI Offensive Doesn't Start in the Lab — It Starts With Demographics

China's bet on AI and robotics is less a geopolitical arms race than a demographic emergency: two state experiments — the one-child policy and zero-COVID — created the fastest-ageing, shrinking society in history. AI and robots are meant to replace the people who soon won't exist. Not a faraway China story, but a preview of our own ageing Europe.

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July 7, 2026EN

The Robot Against Loneliness

UBTECH unveiled a lifelike humanoid — positioned not as an industrial machine but as an „emotional companion“. It's the economic answer to a hard reality: collapsing birth rates, ageing societies and loneliness as a documented health problem. A great deal of capital is flowing into that gap — but is the robot really a solution?

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