Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the worldOne of Donald Trump\u2019s top officials has warned European allies hesitant about working with Elon Musk\u2019s satellite internet company that they needed to choose between US and Chinese technology.Brendan Carr, chair of the Federal Communications Commission, told the Financial Times that \u201callied western democracies\u201d needed to \u201cfocus on the real long-term bogey: the rise of the Chinese Communist party\u201d.His comments come as European governments and some European companies consider whether Starlink \u2014 which is owned by Musk\u2019s SpaceX and provides satellite broadband and limited mobile services \u2014 is a reliable partner after Washington threatened to switch off its services in Ukraine.\u00a0Carr, a longtime ally of Musk who Trump tapped to run the agency after his re-election as president, said it was \u201cunfortunate\u201d that politics appeared to be influencing long-term decisions.\u201cIf you\u2019re concerned about Starlink, just wait for the CCP\u2019s version, then you\u2019ll be really worried,\u201d he said.UK telecoms companies BT and Virgin Media 02 are among the companies trialling Starlink\u2019s technology for mobile or broadband services \u2014 although neither has yet signed a full agreement with the provider.Carr has previously argued in favour of Musk\u2019s businesses in the US, claiming they had been targets of \u201cregulatory harassment\u201d ever since the billionaire took over Twitter in 2022.He has also repeatedly suggested that the Biden administration discriminated against Starlink by denying it US government subsidies for rural broadband.Carr told the FT that he believed Europe was \u201ccaught\u201d between Washington and Beijing and warned of a \u201cgreat divide\u201d opening up between \u201cCCP-aligned countries and others\u201d in artificial intelligence and satellite technology.The FCC chair \u2014 who authored a chapter of Project 2025, the conservative blueprint for a Republican presidency published by the right-wing Heritage Foundation \u2014 said European regulators had a \u201cbias\u201d against US technological companies.He also accused the European Commission of \u201cprotectionism\u201d and an \u201canti-American\u201d attitude.\u00a0\u201cIf Europe has its own satellite constellation then great, I think the more the better. But more broadly, I think Europe is caught a little bit between the US and China. And it\u2019s sort of time for choosing,\u201d he said.\u00a0A spokesperson for the European Commission said it had \u201calways enforced and would continue to enforce laws fairly and without discrimination to all companies operating in the EU, in full compliance with global rules\u201d. Shares in European satellite providers such as Eutelsat and SES soared in recent weeks despite the companies\u2019 heavy debts, in response to the commission saying that Brussels \u201cshould fund Ukrainian [military] access to services that can be provided by EU-based commercial providers\u201d.Industry experts warned that despite the positivity, no single European network could yet compete with Starlink\u2019s offering.\u00a0Carr said that European telecoms companies Nokia and Ericsson should move more of their manufacturing to the US as both face being hit with Trump\u2019s import tariffs.\u00a0The two companies are the largest vendors of mobile network infrastructure equipment in the US. Carr said there had been a historic \u201cmistake\u201d in US industrial policy which meant there was no significant American company competing in the telecom vendor market.\u201cI don\u2019t love that current situation we\u2019re in,\u201d he said.\u00a0Carr added that he would \u201clook at\u201d granting the companies faster regulatory clearances on new technology if they moved to the US.Last month, Ericsson chief executive B\u00f6rje Ekholm told the FT the company would consider expanding manufacturing in the US depending on how potential tariffs affected it. The Swedish telecoms equipment maker first opened an American factory in Lewisville, Texas in 2020.\u201cWe\u2019ve been ramping up [production in the US] already. Do we need bigger changes? We will have to see,\u201d Ekholm added.\u00a0A spokesperson for Nokia said that the US was the company\u2019s \u201csecond home\u201d. \u201cAround 90 per cent of all US communications utilises Nokia equipment at some point. We have five manufacturing sites and five R&D hubs in the US including Nokia Bell Labs,\u201d they added. Ericsson declined to comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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