By Andy Blom, TES Washington Editor It’s Autumn and the leaves are changing, the scenery is peaceful and beautiful, the air is full of fall scents — burning leaves, woodsmoke, fresh apples… and none of this has anything to do with politics which gets increasingly weirder and uglier as we get closer to the […]
Tag: 5G
Competitive Spectrum Policies Keep America Online
By Oliver McPherson-Smith, American Consumer Institute Video conferences, online classrooms, and telehealth have all become mainstream in 2020. This huge change has been made feasible by federal policies that focus on getting the most value out of America’s telecommunications resources. To replicate this success and avoid future waste, access to American spectrum needs to […]
The Sake-Scotch Pact: New EU-Japan alliance forming
“A Surprising New Alliance: Europe and Japan” Courtesy of CEPS Almost surreptitiously, Europe and Japan are discovering they have a great deal in common, joining up to defend free trade, democracy and the rule of law. For decades, low-grade commercial friction and political indifference marked the relationship. Japan’s powerful car industry frightened […]
U.S.-China compromise is (mostly) good news
“A Few Things to Like About the U.S.-China Trade Deal” By Daniel J. Ikenson, courtesy of Cato Institute More clarity and more questions emerged over the weekend about the terms of the U.S.-China trade deal, which warrants an update to this preliminary assessment published on Friday. The deal is pretty good for what is […]
Beware Chinese Bearing Wicked Fast Streaming 5G
By Dan McGroarty, TES GeoPolicy Editor With China’s October 1 celebrations of the 70thAnniversary of the Communist Party’s rise to power just hours away, make time for this Gordon Chang must-read, from the Gatestone Institute: Huawei Wants the World’s Next Trojan Horse to Be Chinese. […]
From Trade War to Tech War: Will the ‘Interim U.S.-China Trade Deal’ Contain a Ticking Tech Time Bomb?
By Daniel McGroarty, TES GeoPolicy Editor “There is also something fundamentally wrong with the interim deal… That arrangement boosts America’s sale of primary products, a badge of a basic economy, at the cost of ceding high-tech leadership.” That’s the closing note in […]