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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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[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.