U.S. Moves Closer to Skipping 5G and Going Straight to 6G

While the American people, and indeed the people of the world, are focused on observing the outcome of the election, the blockade of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) by the U.S. government and the private sector continues unabated and is still in full swing. The American people are now faced with the feeling that the election is just over two weeks away, but the people feel as if they have survived months of ups and downs and long months of suffering. The outcome of the presidential election is unclear, the Senate is uncertain, and the House of Representatives has finished counting votes, but the Speaker of the House of Representatives is in suspense. People who tend to be conservative and traditional are beginning to feel a lot more at peace as evidence of fraud frequently emerges, political figures change dramatically, swamp creatures are more and more exposed, and the dawn of Trump’s victory has shown. People who tend to be radical and left-wing, on the other hand, are becoming more and more apprehensive as time goes on and the likelihood of Biden becoming white etc. increases. People on both sides have a vague sense that this election is really a big deal, about the future of America, about the fate of mankind, and about the many mysterious forces, forces of darkness, and forces of light that are at stake. The day when the mystery is solved, when Trump is triumphant, and when America is restored to the light, is getting closer and closer.

Why does the U.S. government and the private sector continue to block the Chinese Communist Party in science and technology, and why is it still in full swing? The recent high-profile attack by the American Telecommunications Standards Institute (ATIS) has not had much impact on American society, but has had a tremendous impact on Chinese society and the Chinese telecommunications industry. The U.S. is now closer than ever to skipping 5G and going straight to 6G, thus making the CCP’s deliberate support of Huawei, with its sky-high expense and painstaking global investment layout, nearly all but useless!

The American Telecommunications Standards Institute (ATIS) recently joined forces with high-tech giants ranging from Microsoft and Nokia to South Korea’s Samsung to announce the formation of the “6G Communications Technology Alliance,” explicitly excluding Huawei and ZTE. The organization’s president explained that companies that are excluded from U.S. government agency procurement contracts cannot be founding members of the consortium! When Ms. Han Jie, a reporter for Radio Free Asia, interviewed me recently, I said that the U.S. does not want to see Huawei use its advantage in the 5G market to control the world; therefore, the U.S. skips 5G and goes straight to 6G, using the nearly mature 6G technology, bypassing Huawei’s base stations, and arranging a global satellite system directly from the air to provide communications and network services, while excluding Huawei, ZTE and other Chinese communist forces. It is a way to kill two birds with one stone.

The American Telecommunications Standards Institute (ATIS) is the leading U.S. alliance for the development of technology and technical solutions. Such civil alliances are formed and operate with a high degree of market-driven demand, allowing competitors to both compete and cooperate, and to regulate and plan for themselves, shaping the future direction of technology. They seek the support of the U.S. government while actively avoiding the constraints on science and technology development that might be imposed by government regulation, which is more viable than the national-level initiatives, state-directed development, and “concentrating on the big things” that the Chinese Communist Party routinely initiates, and is also a more viable alternative to the flexible free enterprise system of capitalism. A tremendous advantage.

The Alliance was founded in recognition of the fact that in an industry where technological change is occurring at a rapid pace, innovation requires a coordinated mechanism and strategic foresight to avoid wastefulness. The Alliance’s greatest value is that it sets industry standards, it fosters competitive collaboration, and it fosters the development of a marketplace that is a win-win situation for all. The Alliance has made it clear that the North American communications industry will play a leading role in the implementation of 5G, collaborate with each other across the vertical supply chain, and jointly plan for the future of the network market – 6G.

Look at the Alliance’s Board of Directors, it’s like the best of the best in the US wireless and telecommunications industry, from AT&T, TDS, and Verizon to Comcast and Ciena, from Apple Computer, Cisco Systems, Bell Canada, Blue Danube Systems, Juniper Networks, Cox Communications, and Cox Communications, to the best of the best in the industry. Communications to Ericsson, Oracle, Qualcomm, Facebook, Google, IBM, and Microsoft, and of course, the industry will not miss the Korean giants and European bigwigs. It is intriguing that such a broad industry alliance is high-profile and explicitly excludes Huawei and ZTE. Its 6G Communications Technology Alliance, which excludes Huawei and ZTE, aims to establish North American leadership in the 6G market with the “Next G Alliance,” which covers R&D, manufacturing, standardization and applications. The Alliance is moving quickly and will hold its first meeting soon to discuss overall direction and strategy, and its steering group and working groups will be launched in 2021.

Ren Zhengfei, founder of Huawei, once told a Japanese journalist that Huawei has also started working on 6G, but their “conservative estimate” is that “6G use could be ten years away”. I’m afraid Huawei is going to be disappointed, as 6G seems to be coming sooner than expected. For Huawei, not only their 6G, or even 5G chips, but even the 6G standard, have no say, let alone a leading position. What human society needs next is near-instant, microsecond connectivity, and this kind of super reliability simply doesn’t exist in Huawei’s 5G network. What’s more, Huawei’s huge investment in 5G base stations and equipment, and its global footprint, will almost certainly all go up in smoke and go down the drain! Observers of the industry may speculate that Huawei’s rash advance is to lead the world and help the Chinese Communist Party take over the world. Or has the West bluffed its way into a bottomless trap?

In June 2019, I wrote “U.S. strategy may skip 5G and go straight to 6G,” which was criticized as “not mainstream opinion” after it was published. The baseline arguments of 18 months ago, including President Donald Trump’s support for 5G in the U.S., his suggestion that the U.S. might develop 6G, and the deal between Qualcomm and Apple, are now more certain. Apple gave up 5G, the chip giant Intel also announced the withdrawal of 5G cell phone chip research and development, is by no means self-destructive, give up to the hand of fat meat, but to throw away the chicken ribs.

A year ago, when I discussed the possibility that the U.S. strategy would skip 5G and go straight to 6G, there were four key points: first, the technical possibility; second, the strategic necessity; third, the commercial feasibility; and fourth, the political need. 18 months later, the technical possibility has entered the stage of industry cooperation, technical breakthroughs will soon be realized; the strategic necessity, at the beginning of Trump’s second term of office Afterwards, the U.S. will further accelerate its technological containment of the CCP and its blockade of the CCP in the communications market, without giving the CCP any room to live; the commercial viability is now beyond doubt, and its huge commercial potential will change people’s lifestyles in the future in terms of driverless vehicles, artificial intelligence, tele-education, telemedicine, Internet of Things, human-computer dialogue, etc., all of which will make the world’s population, especially in the areas of the Internet of Things, human-computer dialogues, etc., feel the need to use the Internet. People are jaw-dropping.

If the advent of the smartphone has changed the way we live, the proliferation of 6G devices will have a more significant breakthrough than the breakthrough from horse-drawn carriages to automobiles. As for the need in international politics, it’s even more obvious. The Chinese Communist Party will quickly regret having congratulated Biden and feel deep remorse for its failure to invest in Biden and his sons. But even more to the CCP’s chagrin, the thunder of Trump’s second term would have directly ended the CCP’s dreams in science and technology, and even directly ended the Chinese Communist Party’s rule.