Author: Fang Xingdong
Regarding China Huawei Company's participation in 5G construction, new news from both domestic and foreign countries.On the one hand, Huawei took the lead in obtaining the first 5G radio communication equipment issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to enter the network permit; on the other hand, the British Sunday Times said on the 27th that British Prime Minister Boris Middot; Johnson is preparing to grant Huawei to participate in the participationThe British's future 5G telecommunications network is not licensed by controversial parts.Of course, Chinese companies have exerted their increasingly influence on 5G construction worldwide, and they are also uncomfortable with some Western people.Especially Americans who are accustomed to leading the world, are allegedly preparing to throw a new Marshall plan to try to catch up in China in the 5G field.
The core of the plan is to intervene in the market
In the past two years, the United States has sent off -government members to publicly spend a lot of time on the selection of European countries in the construction of 5G construction. It is forbidden to use Chinese companies (such as Huawei) products.However, although US Secretary of State Pompeo and others have repeatedly intimidated and intimidated, European countries do not seem to obey the United States on this issue.For example, in addition to Britain, another big country in Europe MDASH; mdash; Germany has recently made similar decisions.According to the recent draft of the German Federal Network Administration, the German government cannot exclude any network equipment supplier.A German government spokesman publicly stated that he did not want to exclude any company from the construction of 5G networks from the beginning, including Chinese telecommunications equipment manufacturer Huawei.The European media commented that this move may cause cracks in Britain and the United States, because the latter claims that Huawei has threatened Huawei on the security of the United States, and Europe must also act in accordance with the US standards to maintain intelligence in the United States.
However, even the facts that Washington must admit that the United States has blocked Huawei with extreme measures such as the country's emergency law, and Huawei has not fallen; the United States has further held the country's power to block Huawei worldwide, and the effect is not ideal.Now, the United States is preparing to come up with new tricks to support Western companies in the telecommunications field through strengthening government means to fight against Huawei.According to the media recently disclosed that the US government's next steps that may take the next step include: Western competitors to Huawei (mainly Nokia and Ericsson) provide loans and other funds, and introduce incentive measures to encourage American companies to invest in new 5G technology, encourage and supportLocal competitors, developing software for each company's equipment to communicate with each other, through additional tax reduction and exemption to encourage the United States to participate in international telecommunications standard organizations, and so on.
This is undoubtedly reminiscent of the Marshall plan that year.So, what should we think of the new move in the United States?
Strive to maintain American network hegemony
The biggest starting point of the US government was to block Huawei's basically failure through political means in the early stage. It tried to effectively prevent China's rise in the global competition of the next generation of mobile communications, but did not want to stop there.The core purpose of the continuous tricks is that the United States expects to maintain its unique hegemony position in the global network space, that is, the unique advantage of maintaining its consistent offensive security strategy, maintaining a national security in the United States and the inadequate of other countries in other countries.situation.But the United States does this, which obviously lacks facts and moral basis.
First of all, there is no evidence so far to prove that Chinese companies such as Huawei are factor in unsafe global network space today. Instead, most of the serious network security issues that have exploded are related to the United States.Whether it is a virus, a ransomware, or a North Korean internet disconnection, Venezuela power grid incident, and Cambridge Analysis Company's data leakage, etc.
Secondly, 5G devices are just one of many links in network security. The underlying chips, operating systems, platform data, and NSA (National Security Bureau) network arsenal library are more critical than that.
Third, the fundamentals of solving network security issues lies in the norms of technology and systems, and the global collaboration that is launched. It does not require each country to independently produce its own equipment.5G devices are the first part of the overall chain that the United States controls the global network space advantage.Therefore, the United States is anxious to go online, not to effectively solve global network security.
Starting from this logic, Washington's winning European standing team is not really considering from European security, but is entirely due to the need to safeguard the US hegemony.In fact, from the frequent network security incidents in recent years, the biggest challenges in Europe are not the level of network devices, but due to the lack of competitiveness of their own industries, resulting in Facebook, Google, Amazon and other network super platforms formed a high degree in Europe to form a high degree in Europe.Monopoly, which causes a series of problems.Europe does need to catch up in the digital age, but the key to breakthroughs is not security issues, but the industrialization and competitiveness of digital technology and digital economy.In this regard, Europe and China have further cooperated, and its strategic value and significance are undoubtedly more important, broader, and complementary than cooperation with the United States.
It's hard to get European identity
New measures in the United States are hard to work even if they are implemented.On the one hand, intervention in market competition, the division of labor in artificially destroying the global industrial chain is difficult to work for a long time.On the other hand, the true original intention of the United States is difficult to get European recognition and support.
Fair and effective and innovative market competition worldwide is obviously one of the longest and long -term security measures for network security issues. At the level of semiconductor chips, operating systems, network equipment, and super platforms, it is necessary to break long -term monopoly and effectively activate competition.Whether it is China, the United States or Europe, and other emerging and rising market forces, they need to follow technical trends, market laws and geopolitics, and join the most critical tide of development in this digital age.In contrast, Ren Zhengfei's approach to authorize 5G patents to an American company is more in line with the laws of market competition.
Therefore, we can treat it indifferently for the new moves of the US government.In terms of the openness of communication equipment, today's Chinese market has undoubtedly become a model of the world.Regardless of Nokia, Ericsson or Huawei, ZTE, and Cisco, Samsung, etc., the world's major communication equipment companies have their own share.Maintaining a good competitive situation, through open market competition, is the only way out to promote technological innovation, industrial development, and the maintenance of consumer rights.In addition, in the face of increasingly severe cybersecurity challenges, countries should improve the construction and knowledge system of the network security system, actively encourage domestic enterprises to participate in global network security specifications and system construction, strengthen the United Nations level and the joint and players between countries around the world.cooperation.
In short, with me as the main active, it is undoubtedly the most effective countermeasure to deal with various destructive measures in the United States and unite the world's more forces.
(The author is the dean of the Internet and Social Research Institute of Zhejiang Media Institute, the initiator of the global Internet oral history)
