The race for tech dominance between China and the US is heating up, but it seems like Beijing is taking the lead.
The South China Morning Post spotted a report by the Harvard Kennedy School that found that China is rapidly gaining steam in the fields of artificial intelligence, quantum computing, 5G, semiconductors, and green energy.
The report states that China has already become No 1 in some races. It will overtake the US within the next decade.
Tech dominance.
The report said that China has taken over America when it comes to quantum computing.
China has the funds and manpower to potentially lead this field because of its rise, unlike prior technological revolutions that took place when the country was poor.
It assessed China as a full-spectrum peer competitor to the US in the field of artificial intelligence. The US has six million 5G users, but China has 150 million 5G users.
Either trend or break.
While the report avoided alarmism and offered a clear assessment of the current state of the tech race, it still offers some sobering insights that could prove worrying for US officials.
New innovations in technology from China could make the Asian nation the world's largest economic superpower. Businesses could leave the US and go to China.
It could lead to big weapons advancement that could threaten the US military. The report states that EricSchmidt wrote an op-ed in The New York Times in which he warned that the United States now faces an economic and military competitor in China that is aggressively trying to close our lead in emerging technologies.
China is set to become the biggest baddest superpower in the world in the next few years. The report shows that it is only a matter of time before Beijing completely dominates the tech world, and it would be best for the US to remain on the cutting edge of tech development.
The Harvard report predicts that China will overtake America in core 21st century technologies within the next decade.
NASA wants to put people on Mars before China.
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