China's new war strategy: AI and quantum communication

During his report to the 19th CPC National Congress, President Xi Jinping disclosed his plans for the future of the People's Liberation Army (PLA): "We will make it our mission to see that by 2035, the modernisation of our national defence and our forces are basically complete; and that by the mid-21st century our people's armed forces have been fully transformed into world-class forces." The Chinese media announced: "As chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), Xi is tasked with ensuring the world's largest military take a "crucial leap" in the new era from being simply large to being strong." A few weeks earlier, The South China Morning Post wrote about "China building giant facial recognition database to identify any citizen:". The project is to achieve an accuracy rate of 90 per cent, though it faces formidable technological hurdles and there are serious concerns about privacy. The powerful facial recognition system should be able to identify 1.3 billion citizens within three seconds Chen Jiansheng, of the department of electrical engineering at Tsinghua University, told the Hong Kong newspaper that the government would use this system to track wanted suspects as well as for public administration.