The U.S. is building barriers around drones and robots, but China has scale to get around them
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Regulatory walls on foreign drones and robots may reshape where U.S. buyers source, but they won’t slow China’s global volume — the competition just shifts to less restricted markets. If autonomy is in your product or infrastructure roadmap, assume a bifurcated supply base and design for vendor and jurisdictional diversification now.
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