Our battle with China over the future of the Internet is just beginning

By Joseph Marks & Aaron Schaffer, Washington Post

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The United States has mostly won the fight to restrict China’s role in building next-generation 5G telecom systems over spying concerns.

But the battle over who will control the future of global communications technology is only beginning.

Canada belatedly joined the U.S. and its closest allies this month in blocking the Chinese tech giant Huawei from its 5G system. 

The move followed years of warnings from U.S. officials that Huawei is too closely tied to the Chinese Communist Party and could be leaned on to use such a privileged position to snoop on Western officials or sabotage anything connected to the Western Internet and cellphone system. 

The concerns are supercharged because 5G systems, just being rolled out now, promise to be exponentially more powerful than their 4G forebears and to connect to a far broader range of devices known as the Internet of things. 

Canada’s move essentially ensures a near-term future in which global connected technology is bisected into two major zones with Western firms dominant in one and Chinese firms in the other.