China Exerting Growing Influence Over Global Tech Standards, UK Lawmakers Warn

China Exerting Growing Influence Over Global Tech Standards, UK Lawmakers Warn
A Chinese national flag flutters near the surveillance cameras mounted on a lamp post in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, on March 15, 2019. Andy Wong/AP Photo
Alexander Zhang
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The Chinese regime and other malign actors are trying to exert their influence over global technological standards, but the UK government’s response has been “incoherent and muted,” a committee of MPs has warned.

In its latest report published on July 8, the Foreign Affairs Select Committee in the House of Commons said that malign actors such as the Chinese and Russian regimes “are trying to rewrite the rules underpinning our international systems and technology development, and technological standardization provides them with the opportunity to do so.”