U.S. President Donald Trump pledges he's going to repatriate industrial production that has shifted to China and other emerging markets. But economists say he faces a bigger challenge: After displacing U.S. workers, robots are poised to do the same in Asia, too. The fact that robots can be reprogrammed far faster and easier than humans can be retrained is disrupting labour markets worldwide.
Illustration by Carrie Cockburn, Animation by Murat Yükselir