China is making huge strides in quantum technologies. Should the U.S. be worried?
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With more than 400 Chinese companies on the U.S. Commerce Department's list of sanctioned firms — the so-called U.S. Entity List — it hardly even registers as news when more are added. But on the Wednesday before last Thanksgiving, the federal agency quietly made a bold announcement: eight more China-based “entities” were being added to the list, this time “to prevent U.S. emerging technologies from being used for the PRC’s quantum computing efforts.”
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