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The Chinese are flaunting a deadly new weapon. It changes everything, everywhere, all at once.
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The Chinese are flaunting a deadly new weapon. It changes everything, everywhere, all at once.

By Andrew McCollum

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China has given the clearest indication yet that it has no qualms in weaponising quantum computing, starting with quantum encryption. Any real-world deployment of the currently theoretical capabilities could result in chaos in the global financial system, among other critical industries. How will the rest of the world, along with India, respond?

Two events that took place in January signal the arrival of a new weapon, which can theoretically be used to disrupt the very foundations of the way we live.The first was when two Chinese researchers published a paper, the ultra-geeky sounding, Factoring integers with sublinear resources on a superconducting quantum processor. Translated into everyday language, this string of math-speak is the clearest indication yet that the Chinese may have

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