A widely shared market analysis draws parallels between the "China shock" of WTO-era manufacturing job losses and potential AI-driven white-collar disruption. US manufacturing employment fell roughly 30% after China joined the WTO in 2001, a decline that never fully reversed despite years of policy intervention. The argument centers on whether current asset prices adequately reflect AI's capacity to displace knowledge workers. If AI proves even one-fifth as disruptive to white-collar roles as trade liberalization was to factory jobs, the analysis suggests broad repricing across equities, credit, and labor-sensitive sectors could be warranted. Markets currently appear to price in minimal structural displacement from generative AI.