Allowing these vendors anywhere in a country\u2019s 5G networks would present critical risks to the privacy, human rights, and security of its citizens, she said.<\/span><\/figure>\n<\/div>\nThe United States has urged all countries to ensure that only trusted vendors participate in any part of their future 5G networks. As such, the United States welcomed the European Union (EU) Council identification of the serious risks posed to 5G telecommunications networks if they are built using untrusted vendors.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe welcome this acknowledgment and urge our European partners and allies to ensure only trusted vendors participate in any part of their future 5G networks,\u201d State Department Spokesperson Morgan Ortagus said.<\/p>\n
The set of conclusions published on Tuesday affirmed that \u201cnon-technical factors such as the legal and policy framework to which suppliers may be subject to in third countries, should be considered,\u201d she said. Looking forward to the release of the EU\u2019s 5G risk mitigation toolbox later this month, she hoped that its recommendations will include strong measures to address the risks identified in the statement and in the EU\u2019s Risk Assessment published in October 2019.<\/p>\n
Asserting that 5G networks will form the backbone of future economies and critical infrastructure, she said the stakes are too high to allow these vital networks to be provided and serviced by vendors open to manipulation by authoritarian regimes. \u201cChinese telecommunications firms such as Huawei and ZTE must comply with the directives of the government of the People\u2019s Republic of China, without any meaningful checks and balances that would prevent misuse of data,\u201d Ortagus said.<\/p>\n
Allowing these vendors anywhere in a country\u2019s 5G networks would present critical risks to the privacy, human rights, and security of its citizens, she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe United States urges all countries, including our partners and allies, to adopt national security policies that would prevent untrusted vendors from accessing any part of their future 5G networks,\u201d Ortagus said.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Senator David Perdue, Chairman of Senate Armed Services Seapower Subcommittee, in his address to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) think-tank said that America\u2019s relationship with China is at a tipping point.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have two options with China. One option is, we could slip into an arms race and a cold war, which the world cannot afford. The second option is the question of the day: can we coexist as two economic powers and compete and cooperate?\u201d Purdue said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need China and the United States to become a cooperative force in the world today. If we don\u2019t, and if our allies don\u2019t line up with that, it could turn into a very dark world over the next 50 years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we think that we\u2019re going to win the next arms race the way we won the last one by not firing a bullet and by outspending our adversary, I just don\u2019t see that happening if it is \u2018mano a mano.\u2019 What we have to do is build up our number one asset, and that\u2019s our allies around the world,\u201d Perdue said.<\/p>\n
When China\u2019s Belt and Road initiative becomes proprietary, he said he got really concerned.\u00a0\u201cThey have invested in over 30 ports in Africa, and 56 ports in Latin America, and I see what they\u2019re doing in Central America, particularly in Panama and Venezuela.<\/p>\n
China is making these proprietary loans, and we see the expansion of their interests,\u201d he said. \u201cI have a hard time believing their port in Hambantota is just for trade when they foreclose on their lead partner, allowing them to potentially turn that port into a military port. It raises questions about what they were originally doing there,\u201d Perdue said.<\/p>\n
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