Posted on 04/18/2020 7:06:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Western democracies, especially the United States, just heaved a huge sigh of relief after getting word that United Kingdom PM Boris Johnson is dropping the controversial Chinese tech company, Huawei, as the nation's provider of 5G infrastructure.
Although Johnson was in support of the Chinese tech giant laying the non-sensitive portions of 5G infrastructure, he said China's lack of transparency about coronavirus made the communist-run country untrustworthy.
President Trump, Attorney General William Barr, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and members of the so-called "Five-Eyes" countries that share intelligence information, brought huge pressure on the Brits to dump Huawei. The U.S. pressed hard for the UK to dump Huawei because of widespread speculation that China would use the 5G infrastructure to spy and use the remote command structure for blackmail.
Senator Ted Cruz has said that if the UK used Huawei it would be next to impossible to share intelligence information with the ally.
Earlier this week, Huawei, detecting a change of heart by the Brits due to anger over the coronavirus, sent a threatening letter to Johnson. Huawei's UK chief Victor Zhang told British leaders that pulling up stakes now would leave Britain in the "digital slow lane."
"There are those who choose to continue to attack us without presenting any evidence. Disrupting our involvement in the 5G rollout would do Britain a disservice." The company is believed to be directly answerable to, if not an implicit part of, the Chinese government.
The U.S. Department of Justice has begun a China Initiative to keep the communist behemoth from exercising its 5G advantage.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
5G technology lies at the center of the technological and industrial world that is taking shape. In essence, communications networks are not just for communications anymore. They are evolving into the central nervous system of the next generation of internet, called the "Industrial Internet," and the next generation of industrial systems that will depend on that infrastructure.
Much of the discussion on the dangers of allowing China to establish dominance in 5G has been focused on the immediate security concern of using communications networks that China can monitor and surveil. That is, in fact, a monumental danger. For that reason alone, we should mobilize to surmount China’s drive to dominate 5G. But the stakes are far higher than this.
From a national security standpoint, if the Industrial Internet becomes dependent on Chinese technology, China would have the ability to shut countries off from technology and equipment upon which their consumers and industry depend. The power the United States has today to use economic sanctions would pale by comparison to the unprecedented economic leverage we would be surrendering into the hands of China.
...Some Americans think that all we are talking about here is analogous to the shift from 3G to 4G in our wireless networks.
The jump to 5G is a quantum leap beyond this. We are now talking about multi-Gigabits per second peak rates for both download and upload.
Devices of all kinds – some “smart,” some sensors collecting and transmitting data, and some actuators carrying out remote commands – can be dispersed and embedded in business and industrial equipment across a wide array of businesses, such as transportation, energy, finance, healthcare, agriculture, heavy construction, and so forth. 5G provides the command-and-control function for managing industrial processes.
As the world of 5G unfolds, we will be seeing not just smart homes, but smart farms, smart factories, smart heavy construction, smart transportation systems, and so forth. And a host of new emerging technologies, in addition to AI, will become interwoven with and dependent upon 5G and the Industrial Internet, including for example: robotics, the Internet of Things, autonomous vehicles, 3-D printing, nanotechnology, biotechnology, materials science, energy storage, and quantum computing.
Way to go lads and lassies. Time to sack up. Now, cut funding to ‘who’. We know you can.
The Chicoms will not be happy. F em.
That will put a crimp in China’s plans to monitor all critical communications in the UK, and their ability to shut the UK’s entire system down in the event of hostilities.
As you say...
1. Why would any home device need to transfer GB/s anywhere?
2. There is only so fast you need to be able to stream today’s shows.
3. No tomorrows, ultra high def 3D stufff, perhaps. But we are a long way from needing that. Unless they can give physical dimensions to the ... well ahem
Good!
The Brits were hopelessly naive to think that using the technology of a Chinese Communist party controlled company would be safe and secure. It took a pandemic and the now increasingly evident cover-up to open their eyes.
How wide open their eyes are remains to be seen. It may well be that one eye is still shut.
Good news. But we still need to can Five Eyes.
“energy,
finance,
healthcare,
agriculture,”
All essential industries.
Which, if allowed 5g tech from China, would become vulnerable.
Good on Boris Johnson, and good on the US, for giving China the boot.
Sold my Zoom stock
Indications are that China will pay a very heavy price for allowing the virus to escape China while closing Wuhan infected cases to leave the city for areas inside China but allowing them to leave China for places all over the world.
Sweet!
:-)
If this is true, it’s pretty big.
Good !
Who needs China’s spying eyes ?
Need your tagline for the Brits...
The U.S. pressed hard for the UK to dump Huawei because of widespread speculation that China would use the 5G infrastructure to spy and use the remote command structure for blackmail.
So cutting China out is imperative, even if our Deep State is only marginally less collectivist in its leanings.
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