MPGH Times - 1st Edition

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1st Edition - September 5th, 2020
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News Team Update

After a break that has lasted around half a year, MPGH News returns with a new format and under new management. This time, we will be bringing stories more relevant to MPGH instead of the general news that we brought in the past.

MPGH News is now under the management of Flengo. Currently a Staff Administrator, Flengo has worked most positions at MPGH throughout his 10 years on the site. “News was going well for a while and ultimately Ahlwong was in charge of it since I think Hova, or whoever else, stepped down from the position. Although stale, it was going well and running still. But then Ahlwong also didn't have time to manage that anymore.” says Flengo. Flengo saw this as an opportunity to rethink the format.

MPGH News has, in the past, covered a variety of topics, such as media, music, and sports, but this time it’s going to be different. “It's gonna be more focused and relatable to things that MPGH offers. It's gonna be three sections each time, MPGH updates, some interesting or cool thing/news, and some kind of real story from MPGH.” says Flengo. Along with being more relatable to the MPGH users, it also removes MPGH News from a position of having to compete with mainstream media. In previous iterations, the stories had lost relevance when the stories were published. By sticking to inside-MPGH themes, we can post relevant and interesting stories.

A new issue will be published biweekly. “If things go really well and the engagement is there, might look to increase it to weekly again later down the line.” says Flengo, “I hope the fact that it's all new content and actually relatable will invite more people to actually read it and hopefully post comments on the thread. Perhaps we could do more stuff with it later, but will have to see how it goes. As for any other engagement related things, leaving that to the Publicists team.”

Is 5G going to be the first US-China tech war?

While 5G is being rolled out to every country slowly, the US's market is continuing to ban China equipment from its networks. This fight about 5G and Huawei has turned into the land on which the US-China tech battle is being fought. The 5G industry including facility equipment is required to achieve $48 billion by 2027, but more significantly, it is required to take trillions or even more of economic output over the installed 5G networks. Any organization or nation that ensures this 5G technology can then have an advantage over others in the system and technical area.

This may already be seen in the number of high-tech areas in China. In this competition to create 5G mobile networks, China is leading the way with national firms having around 10% of world "5G-essential" IPRs. Chinese tech giants Huawei and ZTE, the greatest two global patent filers in this globe respectively, have been leading individuals in 5G technologies. Likewise, Alibaba and Tencent continue to take innovation at those in the realms of mobile payments and business engineering. Mobile payments in China have passed $9 trillion a year — far forward of the United States — and China today reports for half of the globe’s digital payments and three-quarters of the global online lending market. Falling behind on 5G is the concern within the Trump presidency. Earlier this year, America Attorney General William Barr reported China’s dominance of 5G telecommunication networks as one of the greatest U.S. Public safety and economical threats, bringing that for the first time in history, the US isn't running the future technology era.

There are various causes. For one, the government in China has invested large sums of money in corporations such as Huawei to create 5G technology. The Chinese government also operates China's wireless delivery industry and is forcing its three leading suppliers, China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Telecommunication, to add efforts to create a standalone 5G network that'll commercially launch in 2020. Meanwhile, there are no leading US companies establishing and producing much 5G telecommunication equipment yet. Thanks to decades of industry integration, US corporations once dominant in offering telecom equipment have been sold to overseas companies. And today, the market for 5G gear is led by Chinese-based Huawei as well as Nokia and Ericsson, both based in Northern Europe. This will be a major challenge for the US government as well as other countries in the near future.

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• Eternity

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• Gnavling
• Kahsiong
• Poonce
• aku