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.
Good!
Good news. But we still need to can Five Eyes.
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.
Thank God the Brits are finally standing up to the Chinese a little bit.
Better late than never, but man was this almost too late. Shame it took Boris getting COVID-19 and the UK discovering that most of the Chinese-sourced test kits didn’t work to get Boris to get his head out of his arse on Huawei.
Gotta love Boris...
Wow!
Good on ya, Boris! I am so happy you recovered from China’s Gift.
China needs to be shunned off the face of the earth at the BAREST MINIMUM!
Disrupting our involvement in the 5G rollout would do Britain a disservice.”
I think they meant it would make it much more difficult for China to spy on Britain and her allies?
Bert, looks like gloBULLism is on the run everywhere. What’s a Free Traitor™ to do?
The CCP crapped in their mess kit when they colluded with the American communist DS over this release.
They should now be economically “shunned” across the entire planet for this. Send em back to the 7 century.
also the UK is pissed that china sold them hundreds of thousands of faulty test kits for tens of millions of dollars, and now the UK is left bereft of high-volume national C-19 testing, even going so far down the medical ladder to see if “sniffer dogs” can be trained to detect C-19 ...
The Chinese Communist Party has to pay , EVERYWHERE
Good move, China.
If your customer it having second thoughts, threaten them. That always works.