5G

Apple is reportedly forecasting a significant jump in iPhone sales as consumer demand for 5G devices is expected to boost the popularity of the iPhone 12, set to debut next year.

Nov. 1 (UPI) — China switched on its 5G network Friday, which is the largest next-generation commercial network in the world to date.

The global economy is the battlefield in China’s bid for global dominance. We must engage them with every resource at our disposal, including the Export-Import Bank which Congress must vote to reauthorize.

China will dominate the next generation of telecommunications infrastructure in the absence of U.S. industrial policy to help finance construction of a nationwide 5G network, said retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Robert Spalding, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, in a Friday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with host Rebecca Mansour and special guest host Rick Manning.

Vietnam, which presently has tense relations with China, is building a 5G network without using products from China’s telecom giant Huawei.

Chinese billionaire Ren Zhengfei, founder of telecommunications titan Huawei, wrote an internal memo this week laying out plans to overhaul the company over the next three to five years and create an “invincible iron army” to fight against regulatory pressure and competition from the United States.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday the Atlantic alliance must counter China’s growing influence in the Pacific, working closely with allies such as Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and South Korea.

T-Mobile and Sprint pledged to build a 5G network covering 97% of the U.S. population in three years.

“We should be cutting Huawei off and trying to kill it,” advised Gordon Chang, columnist at the Daily Beast and author of The Coming Collapse of China, in a Tuesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.

John Bolton said the Trump administration is taking a “hard line” on tech firms that would compromise U.S. safety for Chinese market share.

“If you own an Android phone, everything you’re talking on right now is going back to China,” said Democrat presidential candidate Joe Sestak.

If 5G wireless is so clearly a concern for U.S. intelligence, a portion of the intelligence budget could be invested in creating an American competitor to China’s dominant Huawei corporation.

China expert and Asia Times columnist David P. Goldman joined SiriusXM hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak on Monday’s edition of Breitbart News Tonight to talk about the apparent victory of the protest movement in Hong Kong.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi talked with U.S. President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, on Friday.

Former Vice President Joe Biden warned Tuesday the United States was in danger of losing to China in the race to fully embrace 5G wireless technology.

Last week, President Trump signed an executive order effectively barring Chinese telecom giant Huawei from doing business in the United States.

“If we continue this battle going on the last three years for another four … China is going to be in 5G. AI is going to be owned by them,” Biden said.

Rubio released a report Wednesday calling on American businesses and policymakers to invest more in domestic capital in the United States.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) warns countries around the world to avoid joining the “Belt and Road” initiative because “China is playing a zero-sum game internationally and willing to win at all costs.”

President Donald Trump’s number priority in immigration policy is protecting Americans’ wages and salaries, Jared Kushner told an audience at the #Time100 summit today.  

The settlement between Apple and Qualcomm could speed the deployment of 5G phones to U.S. consumers.

“The race to 5G is a race that American must win,” Trump said. “It’s a race that we will win.”

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Ajit Pai announced Friday that the agency will unveil the largest spectrum auction in American history to ensure American leadership in 5G and create a Rural Digital Opportunity Fund to expand Internet access to rural America.

The AT&T chief had an impromtu meeting with President Donald Trump last week. 5G network technology was discussed.

Six retired U.S. defense officials issued a statement on Wednesday warning that European and Asian partners could put American military operations at risk if they use Chinese technology in their 5G networks.

Security officials in the United Kingdom issued a report on Thursday identifying further security risks in equipment from Chinese telecom giant Huawei. The report noted Huawei has made no progress on addressing previously identified problems and said it would be “difficult” to manage the security risk from further Huawei purchases.

U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell warned the German government it could lose access to American intelligence if Germany insists on buying equipment from China’s Huawei telecommunications company for its 5G wireless network.

China’s giant Huawei telecommunications company announced on Thursday it filed a lawsuit against the United States government over its ban on government agencies and contractors buying Huawei equipment. The ban was imposed over concerns that Huawei products may create security vulnerabilities that could be exploited by Chinese intelligence agents.

Gordon Chang warned that America is “unsafe” with Steve Mnuchin in a leadership position in trade negotiations with China.

President Trump signaled support for tech and market structure innovation that would create an open-access wholesale market for 5G.