Graham warns of 5G security threat from China

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Tuesday pressed the Trump administration to work with Congress on combatting security threats from 5G wireless technology, including stopping business with countries using Chinese technologies. “You’ve got hardening our critical infrastructure here at home that is mostly private sector based,” Graham said, during a hearing of his…

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U.S. Takes Huawei Fight Directly to Telecom Industry

American officials inserted themselves into the telecom industry’s biggest trade fair to slam Huawei Technologies Co.—one of the event’s main sponsors—as “duplicitous and deceitful” and to warn other governments they won’t be able to use U.S. aid to buy the Chinese company’s gear. The Trump administration sent a large delegation of senior officials from the…

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In 5G Race With China, U.S. Pushes Allies to Fight Huawei

Jeremy Hunt, the British foreign minister, arrived in Washington last week for a whirlwind of meetings facing a critical question: Should Britain risk its relationship with Beijing and agree to the Trump administration’s request to ban Huawei, China’s leading telecommunications producer, from building its next-generation computer and phone networks?

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The FTC Goes After Qualcomm

While the U.S. government is pulling out all the stops to undermine Huawei’s drive to dominate the 5G future, its own Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is pursuing litigation which, if successful, would seriously damage the only major U.S. competitor to that Chinese company: Qualcomm. Given the importance of the 5G rollout to both national security…

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Ned Ryun: The critical 5G war

There’s a war going on for your next cell phone network. You might not have heard about it, but last week President Trump made a major move to protect American interests and support American technology superiority. By announcing a broad deployment of 5G networks and financial incentives for American companies to keep pace with China…

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