“Made in China 2025” is China’s initiative to rein as world leader in technology — from telecommunications to artificial intelligence coupled with robots to quantum computing. A key accomplishment has been the over $10B put into their civilian-military quantum computing complex; this is aside from corporate mega-giants Huawei and Alibaba’s ‘commercial’ efforts. By comparison, the U.S. has a fledgling effort in its government “with a quantum-information-science subcommittee taking shape at the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and with a bill introduced in the House that would allocate $1.25 billion over the next five years…in the quantum field.” Granted the tally of dollar-for-dollar spending appears lopsided between the two nations. Not included in the tally is the U.S. commercial and academic sectors each having gaining stakes in quantum.
