Asia Daily Briefing - Robots over workers July 25, 2019

	China's tech spending  surges as it strives  to be robotics superpower China is investing heavily to  swap factory workers for  high-tech industrial robots,  with the goal to have 70% of  those robots made by domestic companies by 2025.
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