How urgent is it to reduce China's technological lead?
the best form of flattery, one can only imagine the mandarins in Beijing blushing bashfully on February 6th as they eavesdropped on William Barr, America’s attorney-general, firing the latest shots in the tech cold war. One of America’s main concerns, he told a think-tank in Washington,, was Chinese dominance of fifth-generation wireless technology by Huawei. It had achieved this with totalitarian central planning.
Mr Barr’s response to this threat? Central planning, also involving the state, business and academia, but in support of American goals, not Chinese ones. He said America and its allies should decide which “horse we’re going to ride in this race”. That might mean, he went on, that America’s government or its companies should buy controlling stakes in Huawei’s European rivals, Finland’s Nokia, Sweden’s Ericsson, or both—despite there being no precedent for such a move .
Qualcomm’s relations with the government reveal a lot about the way America is fighting the battle for global supremacy in technology. The Trump administration has two main national-security concerns about 5. The first revolves around the public telecoms networks. It worries that kit installed by Huawei, which boasts a 30% market share in 5and is in most places bar America, could be used for surveillance. Huawei insists it will never be.
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