U.S. media previously predicted China would usher in a new technological revolution in 2027 if it continued making breakthroughs in quantum technology

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2027, the threshold America itself identified. Some years are quietly marked on the calendar by others. In late autumn 2025, Bloomberg broke a story that, while hardly earth-shattering, made quite a few people in Washington uneasy. Patent analytics firm LexisNexis thoroughly examined global quantum computing patent records. Its conclusion, in a sentence: China could overtake the United States as early as 2027.