SDOs are the key geopolitical battleground.
Gorman 20 – Emerging Technologies Fellow at the German Marshall Fund’s Alliance for Securing Democracy, M.S. in Applied Physics from Stanford University.
Lindsay Gorman, “The U.S. Needs to Get in the Standards Game—With Like-Minded Democracies,” Lawfare, 04-02-2020, https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/us-needs-get-standards-game%E2%80%94-minded-democracies
Technical bodies like 3GPP—and the hundreds of other international-standards-making organizations that set the rules for cyberspace and the future internet—have become unlikely battlegrounds in the geopolitical contest over the cyber and information space. And the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is using coordinated attention and top-down industrial policy to drive its global success in these technocratic bodies and in the technologies they yield. To ensure the competitiveness of the United States and other democracies in the future of internet technology and the norms of cyber governance around it, the U.S. and its allies need to get in the standards game.