Huawei technology for 5G network development is a political issue, and Germany has a choice, Alienated his political allies, the USA, or it encounters its major trading partner China in front of the head? There is a middle ground.
May supply the Chinese company Huawei Germany, with 5G technologies? For the German Federal government, your infrastructure is mutated plan to the international political issue.
Between China and the United States, a bitter bet prevails in dispute to the technological domination, the world trade as well as international politics. The US has excluded the technology from Huawei categorically for your 5G network has already made a dispute and diplomatic entanglements triggered.
Germany is in somewhat of a bind and don’t want to make his own decision to Huawei politically, but factually. The Federal office for information security (BSI) has presented a catalogue of measures for safety standards to be taken into account in the award of the 5G frequencies at technology companies such as Huawei.
Ministry of interior is working to reform the telecommunications law. A draft, to undertake the network expansion, the companies involved may be a “No-Spy-Agreement”.
That’s enough? Final safety guarantees there are not technically. The safety authorities of other European countries in the confirm. The British government has not determined whether it agrees with the decision of the United States. France has tightened its safety standards, Poland, and Denmark are already working on it.
Partners and competitors
For Germany, it is not only cyber security, but also trade and foreign policy. “Change through trade” was in the last decade, as the guideline of the German China policy under Chancellor Angela Merkel. The resulting economic growth has not opened up politically, the people’s Republic: “China is a strategic Partner, but also competitors,” attested Merkel now.
There is a solution: The European Union. As the world’s largest single market, the EU has more economic weight than Germany alone. Just for future-oriented technology standards such as 5G, it would be beneficial if the EU-communicate with members on a common stance towards countries such as China.
The EU Commission has already positioned itself with its own recommendations to the 5G network development. Better yet, a perspective would be the end of a common industrial policy that strengthens European companies such as Ericsson and Nokia, and common Standards and strategies for future technologies such as artificial intelligence or Autonomous Driving creates, the slopes of 5G technologies.
Quandary
Whom Germany will snub so with its decision to Huawei: China or USA? Or leaves the Balance and mediation between the two, the final stroke of genius Angela Merkel’s powers before the political stage?
For the German presidency of the EU 2020, the Federal government has already confirmed to the EU-China summit to organize. More Power to the EU your price: Germany should give up its privileged relations with China, which maintains it in the annual bilateral governmental consultations in favour of a Europe-wide Position.