Australia last year in effect banned the use of Chinese telco Huawei's equipment in the nation's 5G mobile network, which will power data-hungry new technologies such as self-driving cars, artificial intelligence and smart cities.. A company that is based in China and subject to laws there that would enable Beijing in a future strategic confrontation to direct the firm to carry out hostile actions such as shutting the network down, is too great a risk.
The technology race lies at the heart of Donald Trump and Xi Jinping's deepening stand-off over trade.But beneath and beyond the 5G decision is a bigger issue. Through intellectual property theft, subsidies to state champion companies and the compulsion for foreign firms in China to hand over their secrets, China stands accused of playing unfairly to get ahead..
As the US and China race to become the world's leader in mobile technology, artificial intelligence and quantum computing - each of which has military as well as civil uses - they need to have clear rules to play by. If they do, the competition will be healthy. If they don't, the fear is they will "decouple" their tech ecosystems. That will harm global growth - which will be driven ever more by technological progress - and it will hurt smaller countries such as Australia if we're forced to choose team A or B.
As Professor Greg Austin, a cybersecurity expert at the University of NSW, puts it: "How do we work towards something that doesn't look like some inevitable move towards this technology Iron Curtain?"
davidwroe . You do realise that Huwai is legally OBLIGATED to assist China’s intelligence activity?
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