The White House should increase broadband access in the United States, help U.S. companies sell abroad and take the lead on global data and technology policy worldwide or risk U.S. tech companies being overtaken by Beijing, they say.
Donald Trump has taken the US to the brink of a tech cold war The conflict between the US and China is not just for technological supremacy, but over two competing ideologies. Thomas Peter-Pool/Getty Images
The former president Donald Trump at a bilateral meeting with China s President Xi Jinping in 2017 Once a little-known regional telecoms company, Huawei has grown into a tech behemoth and one of China’s biggest success stories. But over the past decade, it has increasingly faced scrutiny from the West, and in the process become embedded in escalating Sino-American tensions. The global push to build 5G networks has repeatedly made headlines because of the central role played by Huawei’s technology. But, despite the US’s best efforts to lobby other countries to keep Huawei out of their networks, it remains a key market player,