China will ‘win the future’ as it’s beating US in almost all new technologies

Posted on : March 3, 2023
China will ‘win the future’ as it’s beating US in almost all new technologies

China is leading the world in critical technology research and is likely to beat the US 'to the future', a new study claims.

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) has updated its Critical Technology Tracker to say that China is in first place worldwide when it comes to research into 37 out of 44 future technologies.

This includes 'crucial' tech in the fields of artificial intelligence, space, robotics, energy, the environment, and even quantum technology.

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According to the thinktank, the world's top 10 leading research institutes are in China and are generating nine times more 'high-impact' research than their closest competitor, the USA.

What's most worrying of all for Joe Biden and the US top brass is that China is now reportedly excelling in defence and space technologies, including hypersonic missiles.

The US is still leading the way in quantum and high performance computing as well as vaccines, but is in second place when it comes to the 'majority' of the 44 technologies examined by researchers.

What's more, other countries are trailing behind both the US and China. The researchers at ASPI said: "Our dataset reveals there's a large gap between China and the US, as the leading two countries, and everyone else."

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The researchers believe that this sets China up to "excel not just in current technological development in almost all sectors, but in future technologies that don't yet exist."

They warn that this could eventually lead to a shift in global power to an 'authoritarian state where the development, testing and application of emerging, critical and military technologies isn't open and transparent and where it can't be scrutinised by independent civil society and media."

ASPI has said their research should be a 'wake up call' for other countries around the world, who need to work closer together and invest more in research and tech.

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