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5G Reading List
Does mobile network equipment from Chinese vendors pose a threat to Europe's national security? What are meaningful ways to mitigate those risks? Does China have a strategy to become more dominant in emerging technologies such as AI, 5G or semiconductors in general? Think tanks, academics, governments and organizations produced a lot of analysis and advice to these and similar questions. This is not meant as a complete reading list but a mere starting point. Also, being on that list should not be seen as an endorsement.
If you think we missed some important piece, feel free to send a mail to jkleinhans@stiftung-nv.de. Thanks.
Last updated 28 August 2019.
Policy papers – 5G, Geopolitics, National Security
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2018-10. 5G and National Security: After Australia’s Telecom Sector Security Review
Nicolas Botton, Hosuk Lee-Makiyama
European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE)
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2018-11. The Geopolitics of 5G
Paul Triolo, Kevin Allison
Eurasia Group
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2019-02. 5G vs. National Security – A European Perspective
Jan-Peter Kleinhans
Stiftung Neue Verantwortung
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2019-03. Huawei, 5G, and China as a Security Threat
Kadri Kaska, Henrik Beckvard, Tomáš Minárik
NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE)
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2019-04. The 5G Ecosystem: Risks & Opportunities for DoD
Milo Medin, Gilman Louie
US Department of Defense – Defense Innovation Board
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2019-04. 5G in the EU and Chinese telecoms suppliers [PDF]
Gisela Grieger
EPRS | European Parliamentary Research Service
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2019-05. Defending our Data: Huawei, 5G and the Five Eyes
Bob Seely MP, Dr Peter Varnish OBE, Dr John Hemmings
Henry Jackson Society
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2019-06. Europe and 5G: the Huawei Case [PDF]
Mathieu Duchâtel, François Godement
Institut Montaigne
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2019-06. 5G and the US–China Tech Rivalry – a Test for Europe’s Future in the Digital Age
Daniel Voelsen, Tim Rühlig, John Seaman
German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP)
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2019-07. The Future of 5G or Quo Vadis, Europe? [PDF]
Izabela Albrycht, Joanna Świątkowska
The Kosciuszko Institute
Academic papers – Chinese telco vendors
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2016-07. Transparency and Opaqueness in the Chinese ICT Sector: A Critique of Chinese and International Corporate Governance Norms
Colin Hawes, Grace Li
University of Technology Sydney
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2017-03. Challenger Multinationals in Telecommunications: Huawei and ZTE
Peter Pawlicki
European Trade Union Institute (etui)
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2018-06. Huawei in Europe: strategic integration of local capabilities in a global production network
Jan Drahokoupil, Agnieszka McCaleb, Peter Pawlicki and Ágnes Szunomár
European Trade Union Institute (etui)
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2019-04. Who Owns Huawei?
Christopher Balding, Fulbright University Vietnam
Donald Clarke, George Washington University Law School
Government documents
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2019-03. Catalogue of Security Requirements
Bundesnetzagentur (Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway), Germany
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2019-03. Commission Recommendation: Cybersecurity of 5G networks [PDF]
European Commission
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2019-03. Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre Oversight Board: annual report 2019
Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre (HCSEC), UK
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2019-05. The Prague Proposals
Government of the Czech Republic
Related analyses
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2018-02. The Huawei and Snowden Questions: Can Electronic Equipment from Untrusted Vendors be Verified? Can an Untrusted Vendor Build Trust into Electronic Equipment?
Olav Lysne
Springer Book
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2018-02. A Transactional Risk Profile of Huawei [PDF]
RWR Advisory Group
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2018-03. On Security Research Towards Future Mobile Network Generations
David Rupprecht, Adrian Dabrowski, Thorsten Holz, Edgar Weippl, Christina Pöpper
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2018-11. From Windfalls to Pitfalls: Qualcomm’s China Conundrum
Joy Dantong Ma
Macro Polo
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2019-03. China’s standard power and its geopolitical implications for Europe
Björn Fägersten, Tim Rühlig
The Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI)
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2019-04. 5G Deployment - State of Play in Europe, USA and Asia
Colin Blackman, Simon Forge
Policy Department for Economic, Scientific and Quality of Life Policies (IPOL), Requested by the European Parliament
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2019-04. The current state of affairs in 5G security and the main remaining security challenges
Roger Piqueras Jover
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2019-06. Finite State Supply Chain Assessment – Huawei Firmware Analysis [PDF]
Finite State
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2019-07. Evolving Made in China 2025 – China’s industrial policy in the quest for global tech leadership
Max J. Zenglein, Anna Holzmann
Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS)
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2019-07. Who is leading the 5G patent race? [PDF]
Tim Pohlmann
IPlytics Platform