【英文】英国智库报告：6G的战略设置：中国和美国的路径（37页）

英文研究报告 2022年08月30日 08:40 管理员

6G wireless telecommunications is a key emerging technology that has already become a field for international strategic competition, most notably between the United States and China. By dramatically increasing capacity and lowering latency for wireless-data transmission, 6G promises to enable applications on new orders of magnitude or which are qualitatively new. These effects will translate into comparative national economic performance and into military capabilities available to states. 6G’s performance parameters are still being defined, and its enabling technologies are still in relatively early stages of research and development (R&D). However, both the US and China, motivated by their intensifying strategic rivalry, are already prioritising the technology’s development and exploring its potential for military uses.

Whereas national-security concerns around 5G are focused on its potential for espionage or sabotage through the presence in networks of equipment from politically untrusted actors, 6G will directly impact the international balance of military capabilities. For example, one of 6G’s expected military uses is rapid, reliable and secure transmission of much higher volumes of data between fast-moving military platforms, including in outer space for ballistic-missile early warning. To date, Washington has not prioritised development of next-generation telecoms to the extent that Beijing has, notably in deployment of 5G infrastructure and services. The upshot is long-term erosion of the US telecoms equipment industry. At the same time, the US still has strengths in its innovation ecosystems and in that US firms are well-positioned in key enabling technologies for next-generation telecoms, for example capabilities in software and semiconductors.