SHANGHAI : A European business group said on Thursday that technical standards were a"new battleground" for Chinese companies and their overseas rivals and urged Beijing to"provide fair and equal treatment" for all firms involved in setting such requirements.
Yet that percentage is growing rapidly, as China is now pushing hard to boost its influence in standards-setting. According to Joerg Wuttke, president of the Chamber, standards associations in China will at times keep foreign members away from discussions, either formally or informally. That increases the likelihood that China's contributions to international standards-setting will serve the country's own political and economic agenda, deviating from what the authors describe as a market competition-centric model of standards setting in Europe.