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PERSPECTIVES ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE<br />
ISTOCK<br />
Politicizing the 5G debate<br />
is not good for Europe<br />
By Abraham Liu<br />
It is often said “may you live in<br />
interesting times”.<br />
These last few m<strong>on</strong>ths and<br />
particularly these last few weeks and<br />
days have certainly been interesting<br />
times.<br />
It is now clear that, after shall we say,<br />
a slightly unusual American electi<strong>on</strong>,<br />
there will be a new US Administrati<strong>on</strong> in<br />
January.<br />
It’s still too early to tell what the<br />
policies of President Elect Biden and<br />
Vice President Elect Harris will be, but<br />
by the team they are assembling around<br />
them, it looks like we may be returning<br />
to a world of multilateral cooperati<strong>on</strong><br />
and engagement, which from a business<br />
leader’s point of view, is encouraging.<br />
We have <strong>on</strong>ly to look at this year’s<br />
experiences to see the fruits of such<br />
multilateralism. With the last decade<br />
of global collaborati<strong>on</strong> in the ICT<br />
sector, the quality of the networks has<br />
enabled important aspects of our lives<br />
to c<strong>on</strong>tinue; like teleworking, remote<br />
medicine, home educati<strong>on</strong> and business<br />
c<strong>on</strong>tinuity. Specifically, the ability to<br />
make high-quality video c<strong>on</strong>ference<br />
calls is a direct result of global efforts<br />
and cooperati<strong>on</strong> to develop a single 4G<br />
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