China's Export List Gets a New Top Three
Robots, AI, and innovative drugs are elbowing aside clothes and appliances on China's export charts.
Flip through an old "Made in China" manifest and you'll find the usual suspects: clothes, toys, and home appliances — cheap, plentiful, and shipped everywhere.
Fast-forward to the first half of this year, and three fresh names keep turning up: robots, AI systems, and innovative drugs. Reporters have already coined a label — the "new new three."
Same ledger, very different headliners. The world's factory is quietly reprinting its own business card.