Paul Rosenzweig
The United States is engaged in an ongoing technological race with China. Rather than disabling American companies that compete with China, we should enable them. That’s why the new administration needs to rethink its technology policy — both domestically and internationally.
The scope of the technology challenge from China is comprehensive and global. Chinese hackers have infiltrated American email systems; its artificial intelligence program has borrowed from American ingenuity; and its efforts to dominate technological deployments globally are manifest. In short, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is attempting to spread its technological influence to every corner of the world — and that’s a threat to the United States.
But it isn’t one we have to take lying down. We can act thoughtfully to enable domestic industries and support their competition abroad. One case study of how this can be achieved is responding to the Chinese challenge concerning 5G deployment.
China currently dominates the 5G global industry. Huawei, a company accused by the U.S. government of having ties to the CCP and backdoors embedded within its technology, controls 30 percent of the global marketplace. By contrast, Cisco, Huawei's closest American competitor, has just a six percent share of the market.
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