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Quantum computing
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Microsoft’s Majorana 2 quantum computing chip. The company is among those selected for the latest stage of a Pentagon programme to test advanced quantum computing technologies. Photo: Reuters
US-China relations

Pentagon unveils US$350 million quantum computing push as China rivalry grows

New initiative aims to strengthen US military capabilities as Washington and Beijing compete for leadership in advanced technology.

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Science

China targets AI and frontier tech in newly unveiled innovation blueprint

Science

Debate star and quantum physicist returns to China for long-term backing

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Banking & finance

Editorial | Hong Kong banks can no longer ignore the quantum threat

HKMA survey is a wake-up call for the city’s financial sector to embrace cryptographic agility before it’s too late.

The HKMA office at Two International Finance Centre in Hong Kong’s Central district. A recent survey by the HKMA found that few banks in Hong Kong were prepared for cybersecurity risks posed by quantum computing. Photo: Jelly Tse
Banking & finance

Hong Kong banks just starting to prepare for quantum threats: HKMA

Banking sector scores 2.3 out of 10 on new readiness index as regulator targets full preparedness by 2030.

Science

Pan Jianwei becomes first Chinese scientist to win top UN basic science prize

Father of quantum recognised for ‘seminal contributions to large-scale secure quantum communications and scalable quantum computation’.

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China’s private sector

Shanghai unveils quantum computing hub as China races for tech supremacy

The zone is set to provide up to 100 million yuan to fund research and development of the technology.

The district of Xuhui in Shanghai. Photo: Shutterstock
US-China tech war

China is a step closer to self-reliance in quantum computing production: Beijing

The country is pushing for self-reliance in important industries amid competition with the US over advanced technology fabrication.

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Science

China team drafts sanctions list on 63 key sectors to preserve technology

Scientists have listed sensitive or globally competitive tech that may benefit from export restrictions to keep them out of foreign hands.

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France

France to invest €1.5 billion in quantum computing, advanced microchips

This comes a day after the US unveiled plans to take US$2 billion in equity stakes across nine quantum-computing companies.

France’s President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech at the Very Large Computing Centre of the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission in Bruyeres-le-Châtel, south of Paris on Friday. Photo: AFP
Technology

Opinion | Quantum IPO wave is a milestone. It should also come with a warning

Like with the dotcom bubble, investors are piling into companies exploring technologies with a commercial future that is not yet clear.

Hanyuan-2, the world’s first dual-core quantum computer, is launched in Jiangsu on May 7. It is the kind of breakthrough that sustains investor optimism. Photo: Handout
Science

Does China’s Jiuzhang 4.0 computer herald the age of quantum supremacy?

New programmable photonic quantum computing prototype completed a complex calculation in microseconds, developers say.

Science

Chinese team shows quantum tech can disrupt AI in a real-world task

Breakthrough system matched or exceeded performance of a classical reservoir network with 10,000 nodes in multi-step weather prediction.

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Science

Drone warfare transformed? How China’s new invention could change the game

Researchers say the fingernail-sized devices could help transform drone warfare and other fields where precise timing is vital.

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The team’s atomic clock, which is said to lose only a second every 30,000 years. Photo: Handout
Science

Unbreakable encryption on the cards thanks to this Chinese team’s discovery

Chinese innovation can pave the way for sharper medical imaging, unbreakable encryption and next-gen sensors.

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A conceptual visualisation of a starburst radiating energy and light against a deep blue cosmic backdrop. Photo: Getty Images
China technology

Opinion | US tech war spurring China’s 21st century research renaissance

China has gone from rice paddy to the world’s factory, but it will complete its modernisation in research labs.

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US-China relations

How AI, quantum computing could help US overcome China’s rare earths advantage

Technologies for synthesising substitutes or alloys could cut time required to secure critical materials to just a few years.

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Science

Chinese scientists find path for long-distance quantum communications network

Team from Peking University says its model could allow for ultra-secure communications across thousands of kilometres.

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Quantum networks allow for ultra-secure communications. Photo: Shutterstock
United States

Opinion | Chilling effect of US outbound investment rules will extend beyond China

Outbound investment rules introduced last year are expanding and hardening into law, chilling US investment across Asia’s tech ecosystems.

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Fintech

HKMA launches quantum readiness and cybersecurity projects for banks in AI era

Banking regulator sets fintech road map with quantum index and measures to boost security, data quality and skills.

Science

China’s first-of-kind ABF crystal creates most energised solid-state laser beam

Breakthrough could open possibilities in quantum computing, space platforms, precision manufacturing and the chip industry.

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The ammonium fluorooxoborate (ABF) crystal is at the heart of a breakthrough by Chinese scientists who say they have attained the shortest wavelength of a laser beam generated from a crystal. Photo: Handout
US-China relations

Opinion | China has Trump 2.0 to thank for emerging stronger in tech and trade

As intense US-China competition becomes the new normal, pressure has strengthened China’s capacity to adapt rather than deter it from its long-term ambitions.

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President Xi Jinping attends a high-level reception to ring in the Lunar New Year at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, on January 27, 2025. Photo: Xinhua
Science

Editorial | China is no longer a follower in the race for quantum supremacy

A Chinese team recreated one of Einstein’s famous thought experiments, the results of which could help improve technologies like quantum computing.

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Wilczek’s Multiverse | Prize for Physics that proves big things can be quantum too

This year’s winners were honoured for their work with an electrical circuit that could open up a path for further computing breakthroughs.

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Technology

Opinion | How AI, quantum and space technologies will define the Asian century

Together, they form an engine that will determine which nations shape the century ahead and which struggle to keep pace.

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Science

Quantum chip gives China’s AI data centres ‘1,000-fold’ speed boost: researchers

Emerging tech that uses light to boost computer power is already being used in aerospace, biomedicine and finance.

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Researchers at CHIPX pose for a photo with their high-performance 6-inch thin-film lithium niobate chip, an advance that is poised to accelerate progress in AI and quantum computing. Photo: Handout
Science

‘Historic’: Chinese team makes world’s first 2D industrial chip for military use

The chips continue to function even when exposed to high levels of gamma radiation and could have a range of strategic and military uses.

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US-China relations

China must more actively seek global lead in quantum race: think tank

Beijing could also diversify its technological partnerships overseas and exchange expertise, says influential mainland research house.

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