BY COMR. CHIBUIKE C. ONEBUNNE
Political sc
4/4, University of calabar.
Following the discovery of 5-G new world order by the Chinese company Huawei, the internet overtime was occupied with stories, theories and assertions That may or may not have warranted or resulted to the lunching of 5G. While some nations applauds this development, some other nations criticized it and threatens to retaliate coercively.
5-G simply signifies the fifth generation of mobile communication technology just like 4G down to 2G. But the big deal here is that 5G is estimated to be 20× faster than 4G. For instance, 6hrs movie under 3G might take 26hrs while downloading, 4G takes 6minutes and then 5G could just take only 5seconds. Wow!
5-G is a new world order that can connect all the devices, hospitals, banks, schools and makes life easy as they would say.
Notable political actors in Nigeria like Femi Fani-Kayode, sen.Dino Malaye, even the IPOB leader Mazi Nnamdi kanu have unequivocally and emphatically criticized this development and have advised the federal Government of Nigeria never to give it a second thought. Why? This group believes in the conspiracy theory in the sense that the introduction of 5G is linked with the pandemic Covid-19.
According to these thinkers, 5-G electromagnetic radiation exposes humanity to the corona virus pandemic and the wave reduces immune system in the body there by making humans vulnerable to the virus. Though this same story was used against IPhone, and even 4G, but today we are comfortable using the two.
And then one would be forced to ask, is the conspiracy theory realistic?
When the US enrolled the 4-G technology, it boasted their gross domestic products by nearly 100billion dollar, and if they could enroll the 5-G, then they could be creating 3million jobs and getting $500billion to the countries GDP. They couldn’t achieve that before China sets in and that is the major reason for the media war.
But as it stands now, China has first set the pace with the best and strong 5-G and US is not ready to follow up, Why? The US is probably afraid China’s dream could come to pass, and that is overshadowing the US and becoming the world power. If the Chinese controls the 5-G , they will now have access to switch on or off the data we all depend on. They could control eventually everything that matters in the world and every connections revolves within the country, but the US is not ready to let that happen which is the reason why the US president Donald Trump signed an executive order banning US companies from using Chinese telecommunication. Due to this single development ,The US blacklisted Huawei.
This competition is between the US and China, and these world power countries could use every available tactics or tool to achieve their aim especially influencing the media. Please don’t underrate their desperation for power. Like my friend Comr Mike Odenigbo would say “if one is not critical, sometimes you think what the media wants you to think” . currently there is media war between China and US, and it pains me that most blacks feeds on the media rather than personal research.
What if the US was privileged to lunch the 5-G first? What could have been the order of the day? Probably the media war may not have existed because governments of the world won’t be that shocked like they seems to be looking at China taking over the world unexpectedly. African countries have now started taking sides even though the both countries don’t really mean well for the continent.
The world is turning around and US may loose her status as the world power nation sooner or later.
