WASHINGTON: A Republican lawmaker on Monday introduced legislation to boost the presence of U.S. firms in global industry standards bodies to combat China's rising influence in next-generation 5G cellular network technology.
"China's majority control of the world's 5G networks, interconnected devices and cloud storage is a risk we cannot accept," McCaul said in a statement to Reuters."We have to show up and compete with them." The United States has launched a lobbying effort to persuade U.S. allies to keep Huawei out of next-generation telecommunications infrastructure. Huawei has denied Washington's allegations.Engineers from the world's telecommunications firms meet regularly to set technical standards for communications technologies. Chinese firms have begun sending larger numbers of participants to global standards body meetings in recent years.