The rise of robot labour in China - losing their advantage?

I was looking at an article about Foxconn in China replacing 60,000 workers with automation and about how the Chinese government is encouraging the growth of robot labour development. Chinese companies are being funded to design and build automated manufacturing technology.

Am I missing something? China's only real advantage is it's cheap (relatively) and large labour force. What's to stop countries like Australia just buyin these systems from China and setting up automated factories here, bypassing China altogether and generating peripheral jobs locally by virtue of supply chains, transport, admin and so on?

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-05-24/china-executing-plan-foxconn-replaces-60000-workers-robots

 

That looks a bit like the future to me.

And delivered by drones and driverless cars.

 

foxconn makes a lot of computer parts and electronics, so it makes sense for them to use robot to assemble motherboard or graphics card.

maybe it depends on the industry.

 

More robots manufacturing means more people free to join the army, makes sense to me

 

China's advantage isn't cheap labour any more. It's efficiency brought about by scale and proximity to the supply chain.