“Spain has decided not to join an alliance aimed at preventing China from dominating 6G technology.” Spain‘s Digital Secret News reported on 29 that the United States recently launched a national alliance aimed at preventing China from dominating 6G, and Spain did not appear on the list of such alliances. Spanish diplomats told the Digital Secret News that based on the close exchanges between China and the West, Spain‘s decision is not surprising.
The United States Department of Commerce‘s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced on the 27th the launch of the “6G Leadership and Security Action Appeal”. From the perspective of participating members, this initiative includes the so-called “trustworthy partners” such as Britain, Germany, and Japan.
The U.S. “Political News Network” reported on the 27th that the core mission of the above initiative is to unify and coordinate the 6G strategy of various countries, striving to “get ready” before 6G is officially commercialized and fully replaces 5G in the 2030s, with the goal of weakening China‘s influence in the next generation of telecommunications industry.
The formation of the so-called anti-China 6G alliance by the United States is not a temporary move, but a continuation of the establishment of related policies. The Political News Network said that in December 2025, President Trump signed the “Winning the 6G Race” memorandum, clearly defining the 6G network as a core cornerstone of U.S. national security, foreign policy and economic prosperity. The media also mentioned that U.S. officials believe that strengthening cooperation between allies is crucial for establishing international technology standards before the 2027 Shanghai World Radio Communications Conference.
According to Spanish Commercial TV, the World Radio Waves Conference in Shanghai is set to review international treaties on radio waves and satellite orbits, with more than 4,000 delegates from 194 member countries of the International Telecommunications Union expected to attend. The spectrum allocation and technical rules agreed at the conference will directly determine the future development space for mobile networks, satellite communications and new digital services. The contrast is clear-the West is trying to contain China’s influence, but the key steps in spectrum allocation will happen in China, Commercial TV said.
In fact, the U.S.‘s 6G blockade is a continuation of the 5G era‘s technology crackdown on China. The U.S. media said that in the construction of the 5G network, U.S. and China are at odds over national security issues. The U.S. considers Chinese telecommunications companies to be at special risk. Since Trump‘s first presidency, the U.S. has been encouraging allies to avoid cooperation with Chinese companies that provide communications equipment, with the reason being concerns about the reliability of Chinese-owned equipment. In addition, the U.S. has invested billions of dollars in subsidizing domestic telecommunications operators, demanding that they remove Chinese-owned equipment from networks in rural areas.
The Digital Secret Report analyzed that while the United States has strong competitiveness in chip design, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, software, and digital services, it lacks in-country equipment manufacturers capable of building mobile communication infrastructure on a large scale, and related construction is highly dependent on companies such as Nokia or Samsung. It is precisely because of this that Washington intends to establish an international league “to contain China in the 6G race”.
Regarding the behavior of the United States in forming an exclusive 6G small circle, Xiang Ligang, chairman of the Zhongguancun Information Consumer Alliance, said in an interview with the Global Times that the U.S. generalization of national security concepts and sectarianization of technology blockades once again exposed deep anxieties in the face of China‘s rapid rise in technology. The protectionist and isolationist practices that exclude market competition and sever global cooperation not only cannot contain China‘s 6G development, but will also hinder global technological innovation iteration and disrupt the international industrial chain division structure. Looking back on the 5G game history, the U.S. scheme to suppress China‘s telecommunications industry in all directions ultimately completely failed, and this set of confrontational models is similarly difficult to work on the 6G track.
Ma Jihua, an analyst in the telecommunications industry, believes that iterative upgrades of mobile communication technology are highly dependent on global cooperation. China and the United States have huge cooperation space in areas such as 6G technology innovation, international standardization, and commercialization scenarios applications. The United States should abandon the zero-sum game of confrontation thinking, correct the wrong practices of technology containment against China, and work together with countries around the world to promote the upgrading of the telecommunications industry, allowing the results of 6G technology innovation to benefit the world.