6. Writing an essay: 5G Technology and the geopolitical dispute for its control.

 

5G Technology and the geopolitical dispute for its control.

In recent years a conflict has been unleashed on a global scale to be in control and pioneer 5G technology, but what is 5G technology and why is this conflict born? We are going to explain it briefly in this essay, with the aim of inform and disseminate truthful information on the interests that are at stake behind this international dispute between the main powers. So, the thesis that will guide this essay is that world powers dispute control of 5G technology because it will be fundamental to produce scientific development and will allow them to generate economic ties with dependent economies.

5G technology is the fifth generation of mobile networks, which will allow a speed never seen before with respect to the internet connection and will have great impacts on the lives of people and societies, giving way to an infinity of new technologies and robotization of life, of fast and efficient machinery, of smart cars, among other issues. This, as they will imagine, has the world powers and their main companies in a strong dispute: China and the United States are the ones that have advanced the most in this matter, and their main companies Huawei and Apple respectively the companies that seek to implement this technology first That no one in their devices, however, this competition has antecedents, they are related to the economic war that these two powers have been maintaining for years and that is becoming more and more acute with the growth and massification of the Chinese economy and reach the control of 5G could first glimpse who will be the winner of the economic war and which will implement this technology across the globe.

This manifest dispute has generated great consequences in the relationship between China and the United States and the allies of each one, for example, in March of last year the Canadian police arrested Wanzhou Meng, daughter of the owner Huawei by order of the United States, accusing her Of espionage, in the middle of this year the United Kingdom prohibited the Chinese company from generating infrastructure in its country to be able to implement 5G technology and thus we could give many examples of this dispute and how it is expressed in relations between powers.

So, as we previously reviewed, 5G technology is under the awe of the most important powers in the world, both for the technological advance that it means, as well as for the economic impact it will have on future generations and whoever can control it will benefit. and it will be able to become the main economic power in the world, however, I believe that the relationship around this technology should be different, the powers should show a collaborative spirit rather than competition with the aim of improving the quality of life of humanity and allow the internet to reach places where it has not reached until now.