HUAWEI IS STATE SECURITY: 1/4: Wireless Wars: China's Dangerous Domination of 5G and How We're Fighting Back by Jonathan Pelson (Author)
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🗓️ 1 December 2024
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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.Â
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
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. |
| 0:08.5 | Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:10.8 | Huawei, much in the news these last years because of suspicions that it is not secure, that it is a bad actor. |
| 0:19.3 | I welcome Jonathan Pelson, the author of a new book, Wireless Wars, China's dangerous |
| 0:26.3 | domination of 5G and how we are fighting back. |
| 0:30.4 | Jonathan, a very good evening to you. |
| 0:32.5 | Thank you very much. |
| 0:34.0 | And congratulations. |
| 0:35.2 | I go to a scene in your book, Colin Golder, arriving in China at the behest of the |
| 0:41.1 | United Nations funds in trust. He stays at the Minsu Hotel, the date 1980. He takes a walk around |
| 0:49.4 | town in Beijing, breathing in the coal dust that fills the air. |
| 1:00.2 | And he sees satisfied young people because they have a watch, a bicycle, a sewing machine, |
| 1:03.4 | and a radio, three rounds and a sound. |
| 1:10.0 | However, he's there to present about telecommunications to Chinese engineers. |
| 1:16.0 | He walks into a room filled with engineers and identical Mao suits, men and women. |
| 1:18.2 | What is he telling him, John? |
| 1:19.2 | Good evening to you. |
| 1:21.3 | Good evening, John. |
| 1:22.6 | So nice to be here. |
| 1:25.6 | And Colin Golder is up in front of that room. |
| 1:29.8 | And he's trying to tell him how to build a telecom network. You have a country here that has a GDP in 1980 of about $195 per person, which was about half of Sudan at the time, and 1% or so of the GDP of the United States, they had one phone |
| 1:48.0 | line per 500 people. And they understood in China that one of the first ways to build an economy |
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