The country that explained to the US that it was possible to build a nuclear weapon?
The place that made the clocks that allowed laser gravitional wave detectors to work?
The article just kept saying look how good we are. We are the best. We are the world leader. Then provided zero details on what they were up to. This article is not worth the 2 minute read.
While highly useful to simulate complex quantum systems found in nature and technology (the most promising application of quantum computing), it seems that this is not part of a general-purpose quantum computer. But maybe the techniques can be generalized.