Possibly. Although the emergence of commercial quantum computers may take several decades, the 50 qubit quantum computer, named Quantum Supremacy, is expected to be developer this year. It will be more powerful than all traditional computers.

IBM and Google both claimed to have made prototypes of 40 qubit and 72 qubit computers in November 2017 and March 2018, but these qubits did not achieve quantum supremacy. China plans to achieve that around 2020.

In the information age, a country that can master quantum computing technology will quickly gain economic, scientific and security advantages over others.