【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）

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.