Rubio: China's threat to U.S. national security is not a game

Society Pakistan & World Affairs
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The attached quote is copied from a friend’s e-mail:

***"Just ten years ago the US was the leading light in the theoretical research in both quantum computing and also the much-hyped 5G communication, the next generation of internet connectivity and wireless communication.
Quantum computers are totally different from our traditional transistor-based computers and work on the theory of superposition and entanglement of particles in space. Quantum physics tell us that measurement of one particle in space affects other similar particles elsewhere, no matter the distance between them. Suffice to say, it is beyond most of us to get our heads around this subject.

5G is a “leapfrog” jump from the current 4G communication and will rule the world in the next decade or so.

Today Chinese telecom giant Huawei is ahead of US in achieving the holy grail of a working 5G network.

Whoever wins that battle can potentially hold every country using 5G at ransom as it will know all the “backdoors” of 5G.

The first country to make a quantum computer will render all the military encryption of their rivals useless as a quantum computer working at speed of light and on a totally different concept will crack any code. No country will be able to hide its vital national secrets from the prying eyes of a quantum computer. And you guessed it right, China is devoting an inordinate amount of its resources in the research. Given their astronomical amount of spare cash, logic tells us they may just succeed. "***

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Not being a devil’s advocate but I think the problem is US has been bossing around for such a long time and they do it using all possible tactics from spying to govt interference to using technology and so on so forth. Now if any country gets a edge in technology, they easily assume that the other country is also upto the same.

and when there are presumptions, the possibilities are endless.

In open market and without trade embargoes, any country can marvel and excel in sophisticated technologies. But it doesnt necessarily mean they end up like US and Russia. What if they just want to keep excelling without harming others. Let them be. Or if not, compete them within the fair rule of games.
But again, here the spoiled bully wants to set the rules of game itself. And thats where the core of the problem lies.

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I still remember not too long ago when China was hailed as an example of the success of western capitalism. China is using many of the early tactics from the playbook of the US. Russia and the US didn’t impose any IP restrictions for couple of years after WW2 when they looted all the R&D of the Germans.