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Jan. 27, 2019 - Steve Pieczenik
04:47
OPUS 119 Arms Race US and China RAW
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Hi, this is Dr.
Pechenik.
Today I want to talk about a new kind of warfare where the United States and China are entering into a race as to who can get the 5G first.
Now, what is the 5G? It's a physical network of sensors and routers.
Which allow us to get into more automated cars, automated planes, and into areas that are far more complex in terms of artificial intelligence and allows us one day to make sure that we don't have any people working because we can have a complex system of software which will allow everything to work.
Now, from the Trump point of view, that is the White House, this is going to be a zero-sum game.
What that means is that we win or we lose.
That means either the United States is going to beat out China or China is going to beat out the United States.
From my perspective, the national security, this is a very unusual position.
Let me talk about World War I, where we had deterrence between World War I, we had The British versus the Germans.
It was forces, armed forces, guns, ships, and the beginning of airplanes.
World War II was the beginning of airplanes, tanks, ships, and other elements.
And then the most important element came in, and that was the atomic bomb.
From the 1950s on until the present, our strategic deterrence was not a zero-sum game.
It was what we call strategic deterrence, meaning that we will have 23 ICBMs, nuclear missiles, and the Chinese or the Russians will have 23,000 ICBMs, and that would deter us, the Russians, and the Chinese from shooting at each other and destroying each other.
Well, now the whole game has changed.
We've come into a much more Smaller, invisible entity where this physical network of routers and synthesizers that go into everything that's more advanced is going to make sure that we don't get into a war, but for the most part, we don't have any more jobs.
What am I talking about?
The first thing Trump said a couple of years ago is that I want ZTE, which is a Chinese company, to stop stealing our secrets.
And what he did was during the tariff war, he made sure that 75,000 Chinese had no work.
Then he targeted another company called Huawei, H-U-A-W-E-I, which was created by a Mr.
R-E-N and then Z-E-N-G-F-E-I, who was a former People's Liberation Army engineer and now is a multi-billionaire who works very closely with President Xi, the People's Liberation Army, and in fact, the intelligence community.
All private entities in China really belong to the Communist Party, as one could say that most of our military industrial complex really belongs to the United States.
But this is a war that's going on that no one can see.
We're fighting this war because we want to make sure that China does not acquire the 5G before we do.
So what happened?
When Ren's daughter went into Canada, We asked the Canadian government to arrest her for racketeering corruption.
They did.
In turn, the Chinese arrested three Canadians and is saying that they're going to kill the other Canadian.
We went into England and we went alongside the biggest telephone company, Vodafone, and told them we don't want them to work with Huyawei.
And they said they won't.
We went into Poland to say we don't want you to work with Huyawei.
Poland arrested some of the Chinese operatives.
Now, let me explain something to you about Chinese operatives.
I've worked against them for over 30, 40 years.
For the most part, the Chinese do the following operational mode.
They send over hundreds of thousands of Chinese students, guests, all over the world and primarily in the United States.
Those students work in engineering labs and computer labs in universities and anywhere you might find them.
And they act as intelligence operatives.
Almost each one of them is an intelligence operative.
The theory in China with regards to intelligence operative is that we can afford to lose many of them as long as we get bits of information.
So the Russians have deep moles who stay in for many long years and are hard to pick up.
Let me say the following.
In Davos, Switzerland, they just came out with a major statement which said the following, the sooner we get to 5G and the sooner we get into the Industrial Revolution, the sooner we will get rid of human labor, and that's our goal.
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