The EU will hold off making a decision on whether to launch what would be an incendiary trade case against Chinese telecoms companies until after China Mobile selects winners for a huge contract to build a next-generation wireless network there.
Karel De Gucht, the EU trade commissioner, is inclined to bury the case, according to officials, if European companies are awarded a healthy share of a project expected to account for up to half of global telecoms investment next year.
The telecoms case has moved to the forefront after Brussels and Beijing last week reached a truce over a separate EU investigation into Chinese-made solar panels that had threatened to provoke a trade war.
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