I am a Chinese descendent, who lives in the United States. So I understand a bit of both country, at least my knowledge is not from media outlets that wants to bring wars between these two countries.

US and China have two different situation. US will always be a heaven for immigration. this country is built upon it. Young blood will move in to cover the loss of low birth rate.

China on the other hand, is totally opposite. Yes, there are expat, but there is not an easy process for naturalization. One of cause of their fertility rate issue is the policy called 996. Work from 9AM to 9PM, 6 days a week (learned from Japan). Jack Ma of Alibaba is one of the person, who started this. This is one of the reason why a large number of population cheered when he got in trouble with Ant Finance.

China's strategy is AI. Every time I travel back there, I see more automations. There are AI managed hotels, supermarkets, etc. As the matter of facts, with mobile payments and surveilling system, some stores do not have employees. Customers just pick the item, scan the QR code, take out their phone, scan the QR code from their Alipay or Wechat Pay, and walk out. Japan has a similar situation. I am not saying this would work in any country due to the opinion of surveilling system and integrity of customers though.

Robotics is not really slow there. They have cooking robots, cleaning robots, waiter robots, etc. Americans talk about losing jobs to China; Chinese are losing their jobs to machines. Well at least it covers the low birth rate problem.

I don't have full knowledge about Japan, so I won't describe their problems. All I want to say is that if their engineering put more effort in regular robots instead of sex ones. They are gonna be on top of that industry along with China.

To go back to the topic of this post. Robots is coming, some places are faster than others. Theoretically robots can help to take care of elders more and more. And since they are cheaper in term of cost, other merchandizes should also drop prices. I said theoretically because we know how "greedy" bigger companies are.

I won't worry too much about demographic changes since we already know what the backup is. Hey, less population could help the environment too.

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