A former Trump administration official has painted a terrifying picture of China using mobile networks to call down an apocalypse in the event that Beijing develops its own global 5G network.
China must never be allowed to develop a global 5G network, stated US General Robert Spalding (retired), a former Trump administration official, who served in National Security Council until last year.
According to the former Air Force Brigadier General, China will introduce mass surveillance and widespread control if it is allowed to dominate 5G networks linking billions of Internet of Things (IoT)-connected devices.
Once China controls the manufacture and retail markets for IoT devices, Spalding claimed, Beijing will be able “to weaponize cities,” cited by Fortune.com.
Think of self-driving cars that suddenly mow down unsuspecting pedestrians. Think of drones that fly into the intakes of airliners,” the career soldier declared.
“The more connected we are, and 5G will make us the most connected by far, the more vulnerable we become,” Spalding added.
It was undisclosed by Spalding in his memeo exactly how would China could accomplish its world domination of the IoT, as 5G standards are shared globally for device compatibility, similar to the means in which a person can easily find information on earlier generations of wireless networks online.
Spalding’s opinion that China’s aspirations must be countered by a proprietary secure US-only 5G network, would see a technology to monitor network devices built in to the network itself, complete with the ability to “isolate [an Iot device] from the adversary if they become infected.”
Spalding did not lay out a government role in a future network, but asserted that it could be built by a company “with access to enough airwaves,” according to a Bloomberg report.
In the end, any US 5G network must “push ZTE and Huawei out of other democracies,” Spaulding remarked, cited by the South China Morning Post (SCMP).
Huawei and ZTE are two Chinese companies accused by the US of working on behalf of the Chinese government — allegations that the firms deny.
Contacted by Bloomberg, Spalding — who is not known to be linked with any Beltway telecommunications lobbying firm — affirmed that he wrote the memo, adding that it has been circulated to several national security professionals he refused to identify.
Spalding offered a similar plan last year which was leaked to the press, causing protests by tech companies and Republican lawmakers, who said Spalding’s vision could diminish the role of private companies.
The fifth-generation wireless network — known popularly as 5G — is a wireless telecommunications standard in development by commercial providers aiming to make connections 10-100 times faster than current 4G service. The network is expected to be fast enough to support autonomous vehicles, smart appliances and even surgical robots.
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BLOOMBERG Retired General Warns Against Letting China Dominate 5G Networks
China Defense & Security Conference 2017
Brigadier General Robert S. Spalding III is the Senior Director for Strategy and Planning at the National Security Council. Prior to that, he served as a United States senior defense official and defense attaché to China. General Spalding received his commission through Fresno State University’s Reserve Officer Training Corps program in 1991. He earned his doctorate in economics and mathematics from the University of Missouri at Kansas City in 2007. The general attended undergraduate pilot training in1993, and was subsequently assigned as a B-52 Stratofortress co-pilot in the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota. He subsequently transitioned to the B-2 Spirit at Whiteman AFB, Missouri. In 2001, he was selected as one of three Air Force Olmsted Scholars and was a distinguished graduate of Mandarin Chinese language training at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California. Afterward, the general attended Tongji University in Shanghai as a graduate research student. He then returned to Whiteman AFB as a B-2 evaluator pilot and assistant director of operations for the 393rd Bomb Squadron. The general was then assigned to the Office of the Secretary of Defense’s Prisoner of War Missing Personnel Office as the military assistant for the deputy assistant secretary of defense. During the Iraq surge in 2007, General Spalding deployed to Baghdad and directed the Personal Security Coordination Center. After a stint at the Air War College at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, he was reassigned to the B-2 at Whiteman AFB. While at Whiteman AFB, he was the chief of safety, operations group commander and vice wing commander. He was then selected as a Military Fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations in New York. Prior to serving as a defense attaché to China, he was the chief China strategist for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the Joint Staff at the Pentagon, Washington, D.C. General Spalding speaks Chinese-Mandarin and Spanish.
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