"puts China's embodied workforce at around 72% versus 47% in the US." [72%]
The 72% vs 47% figure directly quantifies the structural gap in physical-presence labor between the two largest AI powers, grounding the claim that AI displacement pressure is unevenly distributed by development stage.
Reasoning from this article
The article introduces 'physical presence requirements' as a more predictive exposure metric than the traditional blue/white-collar distinction, and applies it to show China's workforce is structurally buffered from near-term AI displacement relative to the US. This generalizes: any economy with a high share of embodied labor (manufacturing, construction, delivery) will experience AI anxiety concentrated in a smaller, more educated urban cohort rather than broadly distributed — shaping which political coalitions form around AI policy and how urgently governments must respond.