New TechnologiesWhy China just overtook the US with the most powerful supercomputer Posted on July 6, 2026 by Administrator Yao Tongbin was one of the most important scientists in Maoist China. He had earned a doctorate in metallurgy in England, spent three years at a research institute in West Germany, and left it all to return to China in 1957. He spent the next 11 years building China’s first-ever modern missile program, with unparalleled knowledge and experience he had accumulated in the West. But when he came home for lunch on the afternoon of June 8, 1968, a gang of thugs from a rival political faction was waiting for him. They beat him to death in his own apartment. He was forty-five years old.
