Author of "Wireless Wars, China's Dangerous Domination of 5G and How We're Fighting Back."
Joined May 2021
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Freedom Tech DC: From Wireless Wars to FreedomNet - Building the Network Freedom Depends On with @JonPelson and @Bayman11771
- What is FreedomNet?
- AI, Bitcoin, and financial markets depend on secure, reliable networks
- Salt Typhoon showed that even trusted networks can be breached
- Permissionless innovation gives the U.S. an advantage over China's state-directed telecom model
- Making resilience profitable gives businesses a reason to invest before networks fail
(00:00) — Introduction
(00:50) — Huawei and the national-security stakes
(05:33) — Salt Typhoon and the limits of trusted networks
(08:12) — FreedomNet and permissionless innovation
(13:46) — Sovereignty and independent security layers
(16:00) — Panama, data centers, and secure networks
(17:46) — Funding resilience through public-private cooperation
(19:31) — Keeping financial operations connected
After the reports of Chinese made solar cell inverters shutting down, this story doesn’t surprise me. China controls the sun now. Or at least, that seems to be their goal.
@JonPelson Rogue communication devices found in Chinese solar power inverters | Reuters reuters.com/sustainability/c…
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And a shout out to @JonPelson who helped me understand the security argument is a plausible one. If Trump were actually DOING that, it would at least have some chance at success.
Great piece on the problem with Trump’s approach to tariffs.
If @realDonaldTrump is playing 3D chess, he is losing on every "D."
Even if you steel-man the arguments, you have to PICK one strategy and then pursue it.
From @aier....
thedailyeconomy.org/article/…
Right back at you, @mungowitz . In an economic context, the damage from tariffs is clear. But when you’re dealing with others who aren’t trying to maximize economic outcomes, or you have higher priorities…Trump may be doing some of the right things, for all the wrong reasons.
And a shout out to @JonPelson who helped me understand the security argument is a plausible one. If Trump were actually DOING that, it would at least have some chance at success.
If you’re going to key cars because the founder of the company was a Nazi, shouldn’t you start with Fords?
My oped in today’s @WSJ speculates on the possible strategy behind Trump’s tariff war.
Trump’s rapid and seemingly indiscriminate imposition of tariffs against America’s biggest trading partners seems a policy drawn from the founder of modern Singapore, writes @JonPelson
on.wsj.com/4hL3nGp
My new oped in the @WSJ appears in the print edition tomorrow. Yes, tariffs are bad economics. But sometimes they’re effective statecraft.
Lee Kuan Yew’s Cane and Trump’s Tariffs
A lesson in deterrence from the founder of modern Singapore by @FDD @JonPelson wsj.com/opinion/lee-kuan-yew…
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"TikTok changes who you are....It pushes content to you deliberately and with an agenda, and restricts content from you deliberately and with an agenda. So it is changing what you know, who you are, and how you spend your time," says @JonPelson, author of Wireless Wars
I was pleased to see that the Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force included my book — Wireless Wars — in his list of five that airmen should read.
#USAF
We’re thrilled to announce that WIRELESS WARS by @JonPelson was selected as one of the @cmsaf_official’s “Leadership Library” picks for November 2024. Check it out here: loom.ly/0PRUJDk
Glad to see @SenMarcoRubio citing a recent piece I wrote with @KeithJKrach on the real role of Huawei in advancing the geopolitical goals of China’s CCP.
Thank you to @SenMarcoRubio for citing @JonPelson and my article about Huawei in his new op-ed.
Sen. Rubio rightly observes that Huawei is not just another telco. It’s a tool of the Chinese Communist Party’s global surveillance state.
During the Trump Administration, we rallied 60 countries, 200+ telcos, and many industry leading firms to exclude high-risk, untrusted 5G suppliers, like Huawei, because they represented a serious national security risk. As a result, the company lost about $30B. That’s why Beijing is spending tens of billions to prop it up.
As Sen. Rubio points out, it’s “not a reflection of Huawei’s ingenuity,” but rather its importance to the CCP’s strategy for global dominance.
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In “Wireless Wars,” @JonPelson outlines the only way the USA can compete with China in critical 5G technology: chaotic “permissionless innovation” that changes the game. @elonmusk is trying to do precisely that with Starlink. The regulatory agencies are clearly opposed to him. Whose side are they on?
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The Clean Network initiative cost Huawei $30 billion/year. Now, the company would have you believe it’s rebounded. In our article in @thehill, @JonPelson and I point out that dubious math from an outfit at the heart of the CCP’s global surveillance state with a long track record of IP theft can’t be trusted. thehill.com/opinion/technolo…
My op-op in the @nypost argues that Dept of Commerce isn’t suited to leading the fight against #CCP and their business attacks on US.
nypost.com/2024/05/15/opinio…
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Congress must move to stop Beijing from making US rely on Chinese firms
@JonPelson in @nypost:
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RT @SamCorcos: 📝 Books I read in January 📚
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Full list:
1. The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical…
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What's the right way to think about 5G? Is it voluntary exchange, or international conflict by nonconventional means? (The 2 are not mutually exclusive, but the second is worrisome!)
My conversation with @JonPelson, author of WIRELESS WARS....
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This month on TAITC, @JonPelson on his book WIRELESS WARS
We discuss #5G, and #Huawei
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‘Wireless Wars’: How China (Almost) Came to Dominate 5G @Diplomat_APAC thediplomat.com/2023/08/wire…
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How does a telecom investment become a threat to global freedom?
@jonpelson & @mikeeisenberg unpack it in this Invested episode on Chinese influence, Huawei’s back door into your privacy, and keeping your enemies close.
Listen here 👉bit.ly/invested_ep8_china