设想一个大量从中国采购的国家。它的贸易逆差已成为政治问题。工厂倒闭，工人失业。
Consider a country that buys heavily from China. Its trade deficit has become a political problem. Factories are shutting and workers are losing their jobs.
解决办法看起来很简单：找出中国售价过低的商品，对其征收关税，并通过新建工厂重建国内产业——这是美国总统唐纳德·特朗普采纳的目标。
The remedy looks simple: identify the goods China sells too cheaply, place tariffs on them and rebuild domestic industry by building new factories – an aim adopted by U.S. President Donald Trump.
问题在于，中国已成为“制造工厂的工厂”。自2015年以来，中国的工业机器人出口增长超过300%，从美国、德国和意大利制造商手中夺取了市场份额，而这些制造商的出货量已经下降。中国还超越德国，成为全球最大的机床出口国。
The catch is that China has become the factory for factories. Its industrial robot exports have risen more than 300% since 2015, taking market share from American, German and Italian makers, whose shipments have fallen. China has also overtaken Germany as the world’s biggest exporter of machine tools.
