For decades American audiences have been reading stories or watching TV/movie productions where the USA benefits from alien technology. We rarely see stories where a global rival benefits from the technology instead of the USA.
We might actually have real-life examples of Chinese and Russian superiority in technology. The Russian example is their claimed hypersonic missile technology. I believe the western militaries are taking it seriously.
But China has apparently engineered real quantum communications, and they've been testing it with a satellite for years.
LINK:
China Reaches New Milestone in Space-Based Quantum Communications
When scaled up sufficiently, this technology would give any country real-time telemetry over vast distances.