...others who I know familiar with what they’re doing told me about this capability.
But in the end, does it really matter. Between their spies, our idiots (think equifax), and our Leftists, it’s difficult to imagine China being able to deal with all the data they already have on us, much less more of it.
Well, I finally found a “sane and sober” account of the “Quantum Satellite” which described it as having set a distance record for “remote quantum entanglement”. That is, it produced a correlated pair of “entangled” photons, which are guaranteed to be detected with opposite polarization, each received maybe 100 km apart. The previous record was a kilometer or so.
Also, reading a few lines further, a number of detections were made, and many more were correlated than would be expected by chance, so you know, 60/40, or something.
This makes sense to me. It by no means implies they are on the verge of any kind of operational set-up, the hysterical ( to me ) headlines notwithstanding. Also “to me”, the actual usefulness of this in communications seems a very vague promise, now and for some decades, at least.
I know! ... “That’s what they said about...”