ABSTRACT
China has raced ahead in quantum-communication technology, with remarkable achievements in teleportation of the electronic properties of remote subatomic particles. In 2013, two public events demonstrated to the Chinese leadership how weak their cyber defences had been. China still has only a modest domestic cyber-security industry, a fraction of the size of its American counterpart. There are few probative public documents or statements from the Chinese government on different approaches to the use of force involving cyber-strike assets. Chinese military planners surely would have compiled a list of cyber assets that are critical to national military operations in various contingencies and vulnerable to cyber attacks. Segal believes that ‘both the United States and China have an incentive to use cyber attacks early in a military confrontation. All countries, including the United States, have appreciable weaknesses in their cyber defences.
