The Minister of Defense of Italy, Guido Crosto:
In these new technologies, China is ahead of everyone else, especially in medical technologies and those involving human research. And here too it helps that it is not a democracy and has no privacy.
If you're an autocratic country and there's no privacy, you can just go in and get the health data of a billion people.
In the US and Italy, the state, rightly, can't just get the health data of every one of us. But if you have the health data of a billion people and you put it into quantum computers, with artificial intelligence you can process it and extract things faster and get more results than the West which instead has its own rules.