I'm disappointed that in this modern age we need to stress the political preferences of sources which could be at-all critical of the current administration, so as to perhaps stave off brigades of copy-pasting thugs. Still, this article does manage to describe the situation rather well, and link in a handful of common-sense labour-types with bleak but credible assessments of the challenges immediately ahead. Any highlight of magical thinking or comical missteps should be treated as accidental, I'm guessing, and the story should be palatable to a broader range of readers with that idea filling the more compact mind. It's hoped that incentives to the private sector will eventually trickle down to hiring-line bonuses, and help us staff-up with immediately-skilled workers to face the challenges ahead.

Uggh. Awful. This is a wireless industry lobbying organization PR piece masquerading as news. It makes claims that the “U.S. has sought to blunt the spread of Chinese 5G technology,” without in any way mentioning that our efforts are supposedly only to prevent malware and spying bundled into Chinese gear. And it creates a “horserace” between cell service in Minneapolis and Shanghai that makes no sense whatsoever. Is a GOP, free-market-friendly government trying to dictate winners and losers in the tech business? Well, yes, but it doesn't like to call it that, so it positions it as an issue that America has to be superior to China's more dictatorial style. It is certainly true that China has developed a very effective cellular service—it's not trivial, but it's *radio* fr'hevvins sake—but what that has to do with American priorities is left unsaid. We like to think our entrepreneurial, free-market flexibility gives us an advantage, but here the WIA is de-facto lobbying for taxpayer aid to pay for installing gear that ITS firms will benefit from. No direct answer to the supposed shortage of technicians is given. 5G antennas, while needing different locations to cover cities (they're too short-range for rural Americans & highway use, sorry), aren't vastly different to install than 4G and other standards, so this crisis seems extremely manufactured. Other WIA pieces praise an FCC commissioner who and a House rep who voted the way WIA likes. You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours politicking. Again, masquerading as news. A long list of hidden agenda items, with Trump-boosting as candy. Well beneath the normal stuff I see at Politico.

This article gives good context on the Trump Administration's efforts to make the U.S. the leader in 5G. If I'm being critical, the piece assumes that being the 5G leader is something positive for Americans, and it doesn't address possible health concerns over 5G. I'm not sure what the health impacts might be, but I think worth considering in a story like this.