Malaysia's 2nd 5G Network ; I said it, Joe Biden did it.

ON December  9th 2024, I had written that READ : Malaysia's data centre ambitions stuck between a hard place and a rock, because Fahmi Fadzil, the minister in charge of MCMC, and the agency itself from the chairman downwards, can't even piss straight.

FAHMI Fadzil and his team, I opiened had jump the gun in awarding  the second 5g network rights to U Mobile Bhd , which most likely  will definitely team up with China's Huawei.

I had stressed at risk is Malaysia's massive data centre ambitions, which will be derailed if and when America and Western Europe  uses Huawei's access to the planned 5g line to cool down their reliance to Malaysia.

DO note,  that unlike Vietnam,  Malaysia still doesn't have a free trade agreement signed with the European Union. READ : EU, US warn Malaysia of security risk in Huawei's bid for 5G role.

OUTGOING  US President Joe Biden  yet again proved that the Democrats and the Republicans are strongly united against  China.

BIDEN has just made sure that READ : the USA will impose a full access blockade on Data Center chips in Malaysia.

BASICALLY,  what this means is Malaysia's hopes of becoming a global datacenter hub will be hit by the USA's latest directive that will limit access to chips with US technology.

MALAYSIA , READ : will be granted unrestricted access if they agree to security and human rights requirements set by the United States. The United States will grant Verified End User (VEU) status to countries that comply with these set requirements.