而尽管相较苏联中国表现出远远更强的本土创新能力 — — 中国公司已经在下一代5G移动网络上成为领导者 — — 其网络战能力也完全与美国旗鼓相当，但接近前沿与定义前沿完全是两回事。
And while China, unlike the Soviet Union, has shown vastly more competence in homegrown innovation – Chinese companies are already leading the way in the next generation of 5G mobile networks – and its cyber-warfare capacity is fully on par with the US, keeping close to the cutting edge is not the same thing as defining it.