THE PRC PLAN WAS PIRACY FROM THE FIRST OPPPORTUNITY: 4/4: Wireless Wars: China's Dangerous Domination of 5G and How We're Fighting Back by Jonathan Pelson (Author)
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🗓️ 20 April 2025
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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 yearsE
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Batchel with Jonathan Pelson, the author of Wireless Wars, China's dangerous |
| 0:09.1 | domination of 5G and how we're fighting back. |
| 0:12.2 | John's made the case Huawei as a threat. |
| 0:14.2 | What is to be done? |
| 0:15.6 | He lists three possibilities. |
| 0:18.1 | Scale, change the industry standards, or go radical. And he rejects all three |
| 0:23.8 | because we come to the fact that what we have here is a challenge to the way we think and the way |
| 0:31.5 | we do business in the West and the way Huawei must because it's a product of the Chinese |
| 0:37.4 | Communist Party. It's a product of state security. |
| 0:40.6 | So recommendation, John, is built upon Huawei's weakness. |
| 0:46.0 | What is their weakness? |
| 0:47.6 | Well, this is the irony. |
| 0:49.5 | Their weaknesses are discipline and their focus and their scale of business. |
| 0:56.6 | It doesn't sound like a weakness. |
| 0:58.4 | I mean, our weakness when we were competing against them was that we were all every |
| 1:02.5 | man for himself and people were chaotic and they would just slice and dice us, |
| 1:07.0 | divide and conquer. |
| 1:08.1 | But if you really look at the opportunity here, the worst thing we could do |
| 1:12.0 | is say, well, let's just try to put all our resources into one big company and we'll get everyone |
| 1:16.5 | aligned on a better response to Huawei. Maybe we'll give $10 billion to Erickson or Nokia. That's |
| 1:22.2 | been proposed, in fact. That looks like China's model, but we're not as good at doing that as China is. |
| 1:29.0 | They will win. |
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