China speeds ahead of U.S. as quantum race escalates, worrying scientists

McClatchy DC ^ | OCTOBER 23, 2017 | TIM JOHNSON

[familyop]

In quick succession, China in recent months has utilized a quantum satellite to transmit ultra-secure data, inaugurated a 1,243-mile quantum link between Shanghai and Beijing, and announced a $10 billion quantum computing center...Military applications are vast and range beyond breaking enemy encryption to include quantum-enabled weaponry, navigation systems that can’t be jammed, and the use of quantum-powered artificial intelligence in war fighting.

[familyop]

Yet another of the costs of keeping American men out of manufacturing and the divorce/cohabitation regime. There's much more behind the link above. Very interesting!

[glasseye]

What do you have against ‘equality’ and ‘inclusiveness’?
Diversity is our ‘strength’.
War is peace.
Up is down.....err, or something.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Is this “quantum communications” real and being deployed? Or still a science experiment?

[MeganC]

How will the NSA spy on Americans when we start using quantum telephones that can communicate directly to each other without needing a network to carry their signals?

[wmileo]

Why aren’t we taken advantage of the many contributions made by Islam ( According to OBAMA’s NASA guy) in our Space Program to solve this?

[virgil]

Makes me think the reason the Chinese want these quantum computers is so they can know every detail of everybody on the planet. Fascists are such control freaks.

[ilovesarah2012]

But can they put a condom on a banana?

[editor-surveyor]

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Such things are not “classified at birth” as they are in the western world.

You cannot judge western technology by Chinese press releases.

Were it not for Loral/Clinton donating our tech to them, their rockets would still be bonfires close to the launch pad.
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[Spktyr]

It is real and the Chinese have deployed an experimental quantum comms sat, as indicated in the article.

[SaveFerris]

Is Scott Bakula coming back? From the future I mean.

Well there were a couple of ways....

[familyop]

"Is this “quantum communications” real and being deployed?"

Yes. The answer is in the article behind the link and in other news articles over the past 15 years or so.

That kind of topic hasn't been very popular in our services and entertainment culture since the 1980s, when we began more in earnest to be laid off from our "dead end jobs" in production on our own soil to make hamburgers and act as servants to old government retirees.

Our elite folks have done their best through their sponsored media to convince America that technology only pertains to their desire to live forever (bio-medical-stuff) entertainment and chatter about celebrities (personal computers, smart phones and useless electronics on other personal appliances). The effort was supported by the building of a mountainous pile of debts at every level of government.

But in the near future, after the wars over natural resources, low tech (real world necessities) will matter much more to those of us who survive. As we discuss this, PhD.s are running enviro-tech farms and shops to try to teach investors' kids to work on machines. Those interns tend to come, fumble, tire and go rather quickly to follow in their parents' footsteps with government jobs, anti-domestic-competition NGOs, etc.

[sergeantdave]

More cheerleading for China by the pro-commie McClatchy press.

The Chi-Comm apes don’t even have the logistical capabilities to invade Taiwan. Hell, the aircraft carrier they got from the former Soviets 20 years ago is still leaking and sitting in drydock. When their pilots try to land on a carrier they usually land below the waterline.

[DoughtyOne]

I tried to warn folks that R&D followed manufacturing.

Boy was I informed otherwise.

Well, here we are again, something I predicted coming true.

Think weapons folks...

The leader in quantum physics will rule the world.

[reardensteel]

The Chinese are and have advanced. The question is are we at par or better? I am hoping the real story is not in the press and the trillions our .gov have been spending were put to good use. One can hope.

[familyop]

"How will the NSA spy on Americans when we start using quantum telephones that can communicate directly to each other without needing a network to carry their signals?"

Such things are developed by lowtechs on their own time. This is very related and something that's usable now while being developed. The point of it is that it does not need to run traffic through a central SIP server.

Ring
Initiated by Savoir-faire Linux
GNU General Public License 3
https://ring.cx/

It works very securely and with good privacy but only peer(s) to peer(s). Calling a phone that only uses the PSTN (public switched telephone network) still requires a central commercial server. If it is not washed away in the noise of marketing for other things or prevented by a law, it will be great.

[BobL]

NOT A PROBLEM - China may be well on it’s way to leaving us in the dust when it comes to communication, with their quantum technology being able to break ALL of our encryption methods, via brute force...

BUT!!!!

We make bakers bake ‘wedding’ cakes for gays. TAKE THAT, CHINA!!!

[sphinx]

But the Chinese research teams are not diverse, so this is racist.

[servantboy777]

Our leaders literally gave away our technological advantage.

Way to go Clinton/Obozo. Way to go.

[sergeantdave]

“The Chinese are and have advanced.”

I’ve been reading stories about the CHINESE SUPERMAN for 30 friggin’ years.

Have you ever met a Chi-Comm party ape? They’re stupid, ego-centric and run away when confronted, physically or intellectually. They’re pampered pansies and weaklings, mirror images to our snowflakes.

OTOH, the typical Chinese student is intelligent, inquisitive, motivated and a fine person to drink a beer with. I am completely baffled on why the Chi-Comm apes haven’t been crushed, shot by the tens of thousands and hanged from lampposts.

[familyop]

"Such things are not 'classified at birth' as they are in the western world."

Or nearly as exclusive. China, along with our American bosses, pumped quite a few PLA students through our university engineering programs since at least the '80s. My English Comp 2 instructor said that she was a PLA officer, and so was her husband (maybe 1987 or 1988, IIRC).

IBM publicized a couple of its discoveries in nano-tech between 10 and 20 years ago. Novel, eh? At about the same, a rare back-page news article or two talked about China pouring some big efforts into nano-tech. Nano technology is what the topic is more properly called here. But "quantum" sounds so groovy, like "turbo" in the '70s.

In most important cases during the era of capitalism in a more G-d-fearing environment of the past, men in manufacturing preceded useful inventions.