The United States must stop strangling Huawei and its advanced 5G technology

Since we entered the new century, humanity has benefited greatly from the Internet and broadband. Disruptions are happening in our jobs, learning, interactions and hobbies, thanks to the speed of invincible but ubiquitous Internet links powered by previous versions 2G and 3G, now 4G, and the imminent and much faster 5G.

Behind every step of faster and faster connections are the efforts and cooperation of our scientists, engineers and technology companies around the world.

Apple, Google, Samsung, Nokia, Qualcomm, Intel, Microsoft, ARM, Ericsson, NXP and Huawei, MTK, TSMC and ZTE are among the big names in the information and communication technology industry (TIC). It is their close collaboration as a team and their research and development as individuals that have helped make networks faster and improve and simplify our lives.

At the dawn of the global modernization of 4G to 5G, the US government led by President Donald Trump launched a protectionist trade war and increasingly focused its firepower on China – probably because of China's rapid economic growth jeopardizing US pre-eminence, or China's rapid response to China. retaliate with tit-to-tat tariffs, or both.

While Huawei, with 185,000 top-notch scientists and engineers, has become the global leader in 5G devices and devices, helping many US allies deploy 5G networks and gain a growing market share worldwide. Trump administration regarded Huawei as a gold mine. in its desperate attempt to smother the reputed high-tech company to death, also a pearl of the crown of Chinese technology.

According to US media reports in recent days, the US government has long planned to quash Huawei. Before the presidential decree cut the order to provide US supplies to Huawei, he even chaired a cabinet meeting on the high-tech company.

The suffocating glove thrown on the head of Huawei by the Trump administration and supported by other tough groups in Washington is clear, well choreographed, venomous, retrograde and darkening in the history of human technology. Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi pointed out that the US crackdown on Huawei was nothing more than a "typical act of intimidation" .

Many US high-tech companies, including Google, Intel and Qualcomm, have announced that they will cut off their supplies and services to Huawei. And, much to the chagrin of most Chinese, ARM, owned by Japan's Softbank, which provides the basic architecture of design to virtually all of the world's semiconductor manufacturers, has recently announced that it will also need terminate its cooperation with Huawei.

Some claim that Google's Android system services intended for Huawei are boring, but Huawei claims to work intensively on its own smartphone operating system, called "HongMeng" OS, and the efforts deployed could compensate the absence of Android. But ARM's decision to terminate Huawei's services could create the biggest, if not the most insurmountable, problem for Huawei, and jeopardize the design and production capabilities of the company's future high-end chips.

The launch by the Trump administration of an aggressive embargo on Huawei is therefore quite malicious to strangle the world's leading 5G, who has always used and will continue to use its high-tech innovations to bring in good changes and lighten the lives of billions of people. this planet.

At a press conference lasting more than two hours at Huawei's headquarters in Shenzhen, Ren Zhengfei, founder of the technology company, aged 75, said that he wished to continue to cooperate with all the partners of the sector, and together they will develop the best technologies for all the inhabitants of the planet. He also said that if Huawei could not access US supplies, the company would do everything in its power to survive and grow.

The touching point of the press conference came when a reporter asked him what was his biggest regret over the past 70 years or so. Ren, with his colorful eyes, whispered that he had spent little time with his children and that he did not know how to get along with them. But he did not say that his eldest daughter is still fighting for his freedom in Canada.

It is time for all the world's technology enthusiasts and conscious, caring ordinary citizens to stand up and speak with a strong "NO" to Trump and his neo-conservatives.

The author is publisher at the Global Times. [email protected]