"Chinese-specific technology like the country's encryption standards"
they already implement their encryption standard
spercomputers using linux or unix have their own encryption standards
windows entreprise edition : Windows 10 China Government Edition
windows sold in China are modified by China Electronics Technology Group Corporation and microsoft
At the end of the day, everyone is working hard on quantum and quantum computing can break encryption keys
I know reason. The game of sanctions. No matter of that Chinese economy is in better movement than most of countries of the world. Did you look at German economy. WoW. Recession. Us economy too.
Unlike us economy, germany has another problem : no energy in its own soil.
We all have the same problem and those problems come from inside.
And one of the major problems is low birth rate. With actual birth rates in Asia, europe and america, difficult to maintain such economic or technological innovations. japan and Europe are in bad shape.
We may witness artificial uterus from asians (china) or other places in the world. That won't be such a surprise
When you see birthrates wheater in Europe, russia, china, even arab, birth rate is slowing fast.
Making a conventionnal or a technological unsustaible. When birth are are around 1.5 1.6, the population is declining.
What we can learn now, is that on many technologies, cooperation is not a choice but a necessity. We have the same demographic troubles. USA has an advantage as long as it attracts talented people. (An AI expert is very hard to find)