In a joint-commentary, RSIS’s Executive Coordinator Shashi Jayakumar and Research Fellow Manoj Harjani discussed the global roll-out of 5G networks, and how it has become a proxy battleground for tensions between China and the United States. While Singapore and other South-east Asian countries will favour a pragmatic approach in navigating between the tech ‘Great Game’ between the US and China, the pressure to choose sides is likely to intensify, they said.

…Shashi Jayakumar is Executive Coordinator and Manoj Harjani a Research Fellow with the Future Issues and Technology research cluster, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University.