The political, security and trade tensions between the USA and China have all become intertwined with one another, embroiling many other countries which are being pressurized to take sides. Nothing highlights the increasing importance of mobile communications to our world better than the way 5G has become a symbol of all these wider struggles. In the original Cold War, there were debates over keeping GSM secure from Soviet snooping, but these didn’t make it to mainstream headlines or US presidents’ speeches. The technologies which dominated those battles related to warfare and the space race. Now, 5G is seen as one of the foundational technologies which ‘great nations’ must dominate to assure their place in the world. While the technology rivalries…