China Is Willing a Quantum Industry Into Existence

Two ChinaTalk essays by Elias X. Huber, written eighteen months apart, bracket the sharpest question in quantum geopolitics: what happens when outbound investment controls wall off a sector that never needed American money. In H1 2026 China's quantum sector logged 44 financing rounds against 8 a year earlier, and the industrial machinery now spinning up is aimed at future cryptanalytically relevant quantum computers.