【英文】新美国安全中心报告：边缘网络，核心政策-确保美国的6G未来（33页）

英文研究报告 2021年12月15日 06:53 管理员

In the context of strategic competition with China, the need to craft new approaches to technology development and deployment is increasingly apparent to government leaders. Many lawmakers grasped the stark reality that U.S. technological preeminence was eroding when they realized that China had become a global juggernaut in telecommunications, a situation exacerbated by Beijing’s push to dominate global ffth generation (5G) wireless networks. The state of play poses national and economic security risks to the United States, which, along with its allies and partners in the Indo-Pacifc and Europe, has made notable headway in addressing and mitigating these risks. However, much work remains. Chinese frms continue to push for greater digital entanglement around the world, from Southeast Asia to Africa to Latin America.

Given the fundamental importance to the digital economy of communications networks and the standards that govern them, the more successful Beijing’s policies are, the greater the challenge for tech-leading democracies to maintain their economic competitiveness. There is also the specter of norms. If these are dominated by illiberal actors, their power to shape how networks are used and to manipulate data fows poses threats to liberal democratic values the world over. It is time for tech-leading democracies to heed lessons from the 5G experience to prepare for what comes next, known as Beyond 5G technologies and 6G, the sixth generation of wireless. With telecommunications operators around the world still in the early stages of rolling out 5G, it is reasonable to ask why policymakers should focus now on 6G technologies that are not expected to be commercialized until around 2030.