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The U.S. is building barriers around drones and robots, but China has scale to get around them
This is a classic arms-race dynamic: Washington builds fences, Beijing builds factories elsewhere. If you're building robotics or autonomous systems, the real risk isn't U.S. policy, it's that the competitive baseline shifts. Your moat isn't regulatory protection, it's being faster and better than whoever manufactures at scale in Vietnam or India next year.