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Glad someone slipped that in... the Chinese government is partnering and investing in all sorts of public works, tech fields, moon shots and countries (infrastructure in Africa), while the US is losing ground on big ideas, solving big problems and welcoming international talent. If there were a positive use of nationalism that didn't precede war: More of this, please.

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The Chinese are already conduction all sorts of quantum experiments in space, and from Earth to space and vice versa. On some occasion even in collaboration with nation actors such as Russia. The US is lagging behind so far, the discussed dollars won't undo this.

Do you have any sources for these statements?

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610106/chinese-satellite-...

That article does not indicate that U.S. is way behind.

That satelite is a huge waste of money, very little scientific value, a vanity project.

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