Trump 2.0’s overall policy directions in critical and emerging technologies will likely hew to common expectations. The details, however, of what technologies the new administration will prioritise and how actions, such as tariffs and export controls for example, will affect the United States’ (US) innovation and technology leadership remains underexplored. The US administration will continue a hardline stance on China’s access to cuttingedge technology, even as the US and its allies, on one side, and China on the other, remain intertwined in relevant areas of science and technology. Moreover, in the case of quantum technologies, there are significant and extensive dependencies on China. Such technological, scientific, and geopolitical entanglements of the two countries in the field of quantum information science and technology (QIST) begs the question: How can the US rapidly advance its position in the field, at least in the short term, given China’s control, especially over critical quantum materials?
Navigating the Entanglements in the U.S.-China Quantum Technology Race
