Ex-Cia Director: It’S A Tech War, Non A Merchandise Nation Of War (5G)

From the Asia Times, Dec. 18:

Ex-CIA director: It’s a tech war, non a merchandise war
And, inward 5G, the US is losing yesteryear a mile 

editorial for the Washington Post.

“The United States of America of America is inward an escalating technological mutual depression temperature nation of war with China. It’s non centered on tariffs as well as trade, which President Trump oftentimes cites; instead, it involves both China’s purpose of applied scientific discipline to pocket information as well as the theft of applied scientific discipline itself,” said Morell.

And Huawei, which is yesteryear all accounts ahead of the game inward the all-important expanse of 5G, is at the pump of this competition. Morell explains the stakes:

First… at that spot volition move to a greater extent than mobile data, flowing faster than always before, across 5G networks. Those who command those networks… volition command access to that information – as well as they would move able to pocket massive amounts of information over really brusque amounts of time.

Second… 5G networks could, therefore, enable non but espionage but sabotage, equally well. The caput of Australia’s nation of war machine cyberdefense agency of late noted that 5G significantly raises the risk that critical infrastructure could move brought downward inward a cyberattack.

Third, choices made with competing 5G standards volition acquit upon who has the best agreement of how the applied scientific discipline is implemented… whoever has the best agreement volition guide keep a pregnant caput start economically, inward cybersecurity as well as inward signals intelligence — i.e., inward promoting its economy, protecting its secrets as well as stealing those of its rivals.

With all this inward mind, equally a multitude of recent inquiry as well as analysis shows, at that spot is a argue for the US to move worried.
Huawei has a large caput start inward rolling out 5G networks. In addition, fifty-fifty if Washington is able to convince a handful of allies to ban the purpose of Huawei equipment, equally it seems to move having success at doing, that volition alone move to the detriment of those involved inward the boycott....

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There appears to move a coordinated messaging drive going on:

BBC: "Alex Younger: MI6 principal questions China's part inward Great Britain tech sector"

Is it but me or produce spies seem chattier these days?

Yesterday:
"China is racing ahead inward 5G. Here’s what that means"
Following upward on Saturday's "China Targets Control Over Internet of Things for Spying, Business" (IoT), this is the showtime of a one-half dozen closed to posts nosotros guide keep planned on what's upward with IoT as well as 5G.
And  Huawei.

From MIT's Technology Review, Dec 18:...