The EU has urged the US to join forces in countering Chinese attempts to define the technologies of the future, saying a transatlantic alliance is needed to influence global standards for sectors such as telecoms and the internet of things.
As part of a progress report into EU-US co-operation on trade, Brussels said that the “strategic case” for the two economies to work together on setting technical standards “has never been greater” given the competing models being advanced by Beijing.
“These new regulatory models are a cause of common concern given the important role played by the [Chinese] state in deploying market-distorting practices to build domestic champions in key strategic sectors,” the commission, the EU’s executive branch, said.