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Significance
Large-scale practical applications and commercialisation may still be a decade or more away, but their future significance is already moving them to the forefront of US-China strategic competition, the effects of which will increasingly flow to other technologically capable nations.
Impacts
The United States and China will adopt measures that are long-term and far-reaching, such as upgrading encryption against quantum computing.
US measures may cause friction with Europe and motivate European efforts towards strategic autonomy through indigenous quantum capabilities.
As quantum technologies begin to be applied at scale, they will reinforce the trend towards competing technological spheres of influence.
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