China Is Pulling Ahead in Global Quantum Race, New Studies Suggest

Steven T. Corneliussen

New “space race”? Science’s collegial advance? Quantum network engineering study? Basic research venue?

Elsa B. Kania

Elsa B. Kania

Tural Tural Aliyev

This study was written to investigate the race to own fully equipped quantum computer, which is the new competition sphere in the struggle between The USA and China, and the privilege of owning quantum computers.The subject of the existing study was determined to take into consideration the few numbers of researches in this field.Although the existing study does not fully illuminate both the advantages of quantum computers and the US-China rivalry, it is important bringing more attention in the international relation literature to a quantum computer and the competitions of superpowers to own it.In this sense, in the existing two parted study, while current rivalry between the US and China is investigated in the first chapter, the potential advances of quantum computer and the race to own it is explored in the second part of article.

Justin Ko

Matthias Sander

Originally published in German: China erforscht mit hohem Tempo Quantentechnologien fürs Militär. Die USA und die Nato sind besorgt. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Pro Global, 30 Jan. 2023. Translation by the editors with permission from the publisher.