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US-China quantum rivalry creates harmful barriers to progress

03 Dec 2021 Yangyang Cheng
Taken from the December 2021 issue of Physics World where it appeared under the headline "A quantum battleground".

Yangyang Cheng examines a historical precedent for the technological competition between the US and China in quantum physics

China and US chess game
Adversarial dangers Nationalism in both the US and China can be harmful to scientific progress and human society. (Courtesy: iStock/Jeff_Hu)
At the entrance to the quantum physics and information lab at the University of Science and Technolo

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