Reported claim

“China is leveraging control of supply chains as both a defensive and offensive tool by being the world's largest user and manufacturer of industrial robots, with accelerating export growth to Vietnam, Mexico, and Thailand, thereby linking parts of global manufacturing to Chinese supply chains and granting additional negotiating leverage.”

Strengthened after Al Jazeera Arabic reported it.

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