SPENGLER: China leapfrogs the US in 5G Internet.

In a Dec. 14 op-ed for the Washington Post, former Acting CIA director Michael Morell declared that our present tangle with China is not a trade war but a tech war. If China’s flagship telecom equipment company Huawei gets the jump on the rollout of 5G internet, Morell said, China will have the capacity to monitor communications, sabotage industrial systems, and “will have a significant head start economically, in cybersecurity and in signals intelligence — i.e., in promoting its economy, protecting its secrets and stealing those of its rivals.”

That’s the least of our problems.

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