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US-China Cyber Relations Day Four: China Creates Vicious Competition Amongst Ministries
On Tuesday Dr. Foster discussed the battle in China for control of the internet followed by Wednesday’s discussion on the PLA’s views of the internet in China. Today, Thursday June 26, starting at 12pm, Dr. William Foster will discuss how China leveraged its telecom market to create vicious competition among Ministries and their protégés. Included in this discussion is the rise of Huawei, one of the world’s top telecom manufacturers. In 2011, Huawei was the number 2 sized telecom manufacturer, with 2010 revenues near $32 billion. Huawei quickly spread throughout the world because they were able to get much more done with R&D with the same amount of investment as its western counterparts. This caused the US Government to become very nervous about the security of the nation’s telecommunications infrastructure.
This lecture is a part of a five part special on US-China Cyber Relations by Dr. Foster. For 15 years Dr William Foster researched US-China Cyber Relations and now believes that it is important to to view the current US-China online relationship in the context of the interaction over the past 25 years of technical, cultural and bureaucratic dimensions of the Internet in China. His research has brought up some essential questions such as, “Will the Chinese ever again back the Fed the way they did in 2008 during the Housing crisis?”, “Is there a cyber war going on between the US and China, and who is winning?” and “What is Russia’s involvement in this?”
Day 4: China leverages its telecom market to create vicious competition among ministries and their protégés.
Day 5: The future of U.S.-China cyber Relations
In 2008, the housing bubble burst and we could have fallen into a deep long lasting depression. One of the factors that helped the U.S. was that the Chinese agreed not to call in loans and many still believe the Chinese would never let the American Dollar fail. However, due to the cyber war between the US and China, that is no longer a safe assumption. These lectures provide the background necessary to solve this new dilemma now faced by the US.
Lectures continue today Thursday June 26, to Friday June 27 in Room 420 of the Goizueta Business School at Emory University (1300 Clifton Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30322) between 12p-1p and Broadcast Online.
About Dr. William Foster
Dr. William Foster got his PhD and studied at University of Arizona under Dr. Sy Goodman. His PhD dissertation on the Diffusion of the Internet in China was published in 2001 by CISAC at Stanford. Sy’s research team, the MOSAIC Group, has studied Internet diffusion in 40 countries.
Dr. Foster was in charge of government for the Commercial Internet Exchange, the world’s first ISP association. He then taught information systems at Arizona State University and then left to found the Institute for Next Generation Internet.
