China, Technology, and the Security Dilemma

In this episode, Elsa Kania assesses how emerging technologies--including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, fifth-generation telecommunications, and quantum communications--may affect China’s NC3. Kania concludes: “Although certain of these technologies could enhance China’s confidence in its NC3 in ways that may prove stabilizing, there are also reasons for concern that the potential introduction of such complex, untested technologies could also create new risks and exacerbate the threat of miscalculation.”