"OVER the last decade, China has become, in the eyes of much of the world, a job-eating monster, consuming entire industries with its seemingly limitless supply of low-wage workers. But the reality is that China is now shifting its appetite to robots."

Translation:

We know that you know that the Chinese are really doing most of the manufacturing jobs that not-so-mysteriously disappeared the United States over the last 30 years.

We also know that you know that we did this on purpose, because taking advantage of Chinese currency repression, wage repression and loose environment controls meant higher profits for us.

This is the part where we're going to be completely honest with you, because we have no vested interests here whatsoever:

Those jobs aren't ever coming home because androids that will replace all of those Chinese workers - you know, like you've seen in all those movies.

Any.

Day.

Now.

And, as soon as we're done with that, we're sure somebody will invent a robot to build those robots so we don't need to pay your wages either.

We will continue to deluge you with anecdotes of individual factories doing banal automation like they have done for the last two hundred years until you 'get the feeling' that this 'trend' is unstoppable.

Meanwhile, pay no attention to NAFTA, CAFTA, TTIP, TPP or the US goverment's unwillingness to designate China as a currency manipulator. Also, we need you to keep up the pretense that austerity is about saving taxpayer money, rather than repressing your wages.