.@SangerNYT does a really good job of boiling down the NATSEC challenges of #5G on the @nytimes Daily podcast. The latter portion on the potential "splinternet" is, I'm sorry to say, increasingly likely.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/25/podcasts/the-daily/5g-technology-huawei-china-us.html …
What does the splitting have to do with 5G? How's that not an orthogonal issue? Sure, the driving forces for the conflicts might be somewhat related, but they're not the same.