China is opening a new quantum research supercenter

Once again you can thank the Clintons, whom during their tenure in the 90’s through the U.S. Department of Commerce, gave China the technology it needed to not only gain parity with the United States, but surpass it — information techology-wise, as well as militarily.

Here are but a few examples:

CHINESE ARMY GETS U.S. SUPER-COMPUTERS FOR NUCLEAR WEAPONS

 Super Computers for Russian Nuclear weapons labs

GAO/T-NSIAD-97-128 Sales of super computers to Russia’s Nuclear Weapons Labs

U.S. Super computers for Chinese Nuclear Weapons Labs

 

MANY FIRSTS While QUESS is projected to have only a two-year lifespan transmitting quantum keys between China and Europe, it’ll be succeeded in 2030 by a constellation of quantum satellites. (CNTV)

 

The country wants to build a quantum computer with a million times the computing power of all others presently in the world.

On 37 hectares (nearly 4 million square feet) in Hefei, Anhui Province, China is building a $10 billion research center for quantum applications. This news comes on the heels of the world’s first video call made via quantum-encrypted communications and the completion of a quantum-encrypted fiber optic trunk cable.

China Focus: China’s satellite sends unbreakable cipher from space

BEIJING, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) — Chinese scientists have become the first to realize quantum key distribution from a satellite to the ground, laying the foundation for building a hack-proof global quantum communication network.

The achievement based on experiments conducted with the world’ s first quantum satellite, Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QUESS), was published in the authoritative academic journal Nature on Thursday.

The Nature reviewers commented that the experiment was an impressive achievement, and constituted a milestone in the field.