QUIETLY, SILENTLY, without our knowledge a WAR is happening ...
Have been following the 'Ramifications' of the US request for Canada to DETAIN Huawei CFO ...
interesting how easily a market = all of us can be DOMINATED = CONTROLLED
The US and CHINA are at WAR to dominate the FUTURE Technology market = 5G, or, at least PROTECT their own ?
CHINA is 'BUYING" Future markets with restrictive , anti competitive and politically weaponized tactics... Ref: Nigeria
"The Council on Foreign Relations reported in July that “China’s exporting of surveillance goods is a critical component of its ‘Digital Silk Road.'”
It noted that Huawei recently implemented its “Safe Cities” model in Nairobi, Kenya, where it installed 1,800 surveillance cameras as part of the program, and indicated that “although the cameras can help fight crime, they can also be used to monitor activists and protests.”
In addition to Nairobi, the report stated, “Huawei has deployed its systems across 100 cities in approximately 30 countries worldwide. Exports of such technology are being coupled with Chinese government-backed grants that create dependency of the importing country on Chinese-produced gear and incentivize further purchases of such equipment.”
Huawei Is Cornerstone of CCP Initiative to Overtake the United States
December 17, 2018 Updated: December 17, 2018
DEC 17th 2018
GUEST COLUMN: Huawei case shows how China's ambitions on collision course with U.S.
In fact, Meng’s arrest has little to do with trade and goes far beyond the fraud charges levied against her. The arrest masks a much larger fight about whose values will drive the vital telecommunications of the next 30 years: the United States and the West, or an autocratic Chinese Communist Party.
That broader conflict is playing out where so much of our lives now take place: somewhere in the miniaturized guts of cellphones. China has been using its commercial leverage to spread its own wireless equipment around the world to extend its influence and control. And Beijing isn’t coy about its ambitions: They are codified in its Made in China 2025 policy, announced in 2015 and restated since.
The battleground is “5G” – the next generation in wireless communications. 5G isn’t just a faster version of 4G; it is qualitatively different. Currently, wireless phone calls are routed through cell towers. With 5G, that link will be nearly direct, cellphone to cellphone. As a result, 5G will have many positive applications. It is crucial for the advancement of technologies such as autonomous cars that will need to communicate with each other as they move down the highway. But it also creates the potential for much more precise levels of surveillance by governments and potential bad actors.
CHINA Strategy / Background
Exactly a year ago this week, Tan Hock Eng, the Malaysian-born CEO of global communications chip powerhouse, Broadcom, launched an audacious US$117 billion bid for rival Qualcomm. The world’s largest tech deal ever unravelled just four months later when the administration of US President Donald Trump scuttled the bid citing “credible evidence” that the merger “threatens to impair the national security of the United States”. Qualcomm is the world leader in baseband chips for 4G and 5G communications technology and the White House move was seen as a pre-emptive strike to prevent China from stealing a march in its quest to dominate a key next-generation technology.
The blocking of the Broadcom deal was America’s first shot across the bow in what is being ratcheted up into the next Cold War as tensions simmer between Beijing and Washington over access to technology and the alleged theft of intellectual property (IP) as the race for global dominance in key new technologies heats up.
On Oct 29, the US Department of Commerce announced it was cutting off Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Co, a Chinese state-backed memory chipmaker, from American suppliers such as KLA-Tencor amid allegations the firm stole IP from US memory chip giant Micron Technology. The Chinese firm that currently makes low-end DRAMs or memory chips has officially been put on a list of firms that cannot purchase components, software and technology goods from any American company.
Earlier this year, the Trump administration almost put telecom equipment maker ZTE Corp out of business by cutting it off from American suppliers. ZTE, which US officials allege is part of China’s military industrial complex, was fined for illegally exporting US technology to Iran and North Korea last year and banned from buying US equipment earlier this year. The US backed down from the ban in July after ZTE, which has been accused of posing a cybersecurity threat, replaced its top managers and agreed to pay additional fines. Like ZTE, Fujian Jinhua is a key cog in the wheel of Beijing’s ambitious “Made in China 2025” master plan to help move China further up the value chain with a ton of subsidies.
Here is what is really going on: The battle between China and the US has essentially moved from a tiff over the longstanding and burgeoning trade deficit, to a battle to protect the IP of US tech companies to, more recently, a focused strategic war to contain China and its bid to become the global tech superpower.
https://www.theedgesingapore.com/why-chips-are-core-new-us-china-cold-war
Firms like Huawei have a proven ability to innovate; blocking the flow of Intel chips in 2015 only spurred China on to develop its domestic supercomputing industry.
Moreover, China’s bid to become a global semiconductor powerhouse is propitiously timed. For decades the chip industry has been driven forward by Moore’s law, under which the capabilities of a chip of a given size double every two years. But Moore’s law is reaching its physical limits. As everyone jumps to new technologies, from quantum computing to specialised ai chips, China has a rare chance to catch up.
The right approach for America, therefore, has three strands. ...
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2018/12/01/chip-wars-china-america-and-silicon-supremacy
