BANNED HUAWEI BACK IN THE NEWS: 2/4: Wireless Wars: China's Dangerous Domination of 5G and How We're Fighting Back, by Jonathan Pelson
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In Wireless Wars: China's Dangerous Domination of 5G and How We're Fighting Back, author Jon Pelson explains how America invented cellular technology, taught China how to make the gear, and then handed them the market. Pelson shares never-before-told stories from the executives and scientists who built the industry and describes how China undercut and destroyed competing equipment makers, freeing themselves to export their nation’s network gear—and their surveillance state. He also reveals China’s successful program to purchase the support of the world’s leading political, business, and military figures in their effort to control rival nations’ networks.
What’s more, Pelson draws on his lifelong experience in the telecommunications industry and remarkable access to the sector’s leaders to reveal how innovative companies can take on the Chinese threat and work with counterintelligence and cybersecurity experts to prevent China from closing the trap. He offers unparalleled insights into how 5G impacts businesses, national security and you. Finally, Wireless Wars proposes how America can use its own unique superpower to retake the lead from China.
This book is about more than just 5G wireless services, which enable self-driving cars, advanced telemedicine, and transformational industrial capabilities. It’s about the dangers of placing our most sensitive information into the hands of foreign companies who answer to the Chinese Communist Party. And it’s about the technology giant that China is using to project its power around the world; Huawei, a global super-company that has surged from a local vendor to a $120 billion-a-year behemoth in just a few years.
For anyone curious about the hottest issue at the intersection of technology and geopolitics, Wireless Wars offers an immersive crash course and an unforgettable read.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a new book is Wireless Wars, and how we're fighting back. |
| 0:05.0 | This is CBSi in the world. I'm John Bachelor with Jonathan Pelson. |
| 0:08.0 | His new book is Wireless Wars, China's dangerous domination of 5G, and how we're fighting back. We're in the stage |
| 0:15.2 | where nobody sees the wolf at the door. John, there's a scene in your book that |
| 0:21.3 | doesn't stand up to reality. |
| 0:23.8 | It lacks veris of solitude if this was a novel. |
| 0:26.9 | The woman's name is Madame Sun Yifeng. |
| 0:29.5 | Who is she? |
| 0:30.2 | And when does she walk into the room? Yeah, so in fact Colin Golder, who had stood in front of that room several, many years later, is called in. |
| 0:39.0 | The Saudis were trying to get China to start buying their oil. |
| 0:44.1 | And one of the Saudi ministers, really up at the top of the royal family, |
| 0:48.4 | called Lucent, which was now at AT&T's |
| 0:50.7 | Division, equipment division was called, and said, you know what, you guys are doing |
| 0:55.5 | this huge build out of the Saudi telecom network. |
| 0:58.0 | You're building out all the equipment. |
| 1:00.0 | Why don't you get Huawei, this Chinese company, |
| 1:03.3 | to help you on the project? |
| 1:04.4 | So help them put a bid together and submit it to us. |
| 1:06.7 | It was charity. |
| 1:08.2 | It was charity. |
| 1:08.8 | It was just trying to grease the skids |
| 1:11.3 | to get China to buy some more oil, and and they said we'll buy some of your electronics. |
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