More Restrictions Needed on Chinese Access to US Tech, Commission Says
As China gains ground in technology, Congress should pursue more investment and restrictions to prevent China from accessing sensitive U.S. technologies, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission reported Tuesday. Commissioners said China’s access to U.S. technologies is helping it…
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innovate and export surveillance tools and other advanced technologies globally. Commissioners expect trade restrictions to continue. “There is greater scrutiny and presumably greater action will come as a result of not only what Congress has done, but also the identification of numerous companies on the entity list” barring such transfers and maintained by the U.S. government, Commissioner Michael Wessel told an event hosted by the commission. The report said China is seeking to dominate the development of emerging technologies by securing leadership roles at international standards-setting bodies and “rewriting the norms by which they operate.” China hopes to exclude the U.S. and EU because it views standards as a “policy tool to advance its economic and geopolitical interests,” the report said. Experts told the commission this earlier this year (see 2006250050). The U.S. should create an interagency executive committee on international standards to form a coordinated response to Chinese actions at these bodies, said Commissioner James Talent, ex-Republican senator from Missouri. Talent said the committee would be modeled after the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., with “high-level political appointees” from agencies with jurisdiction over standards setting, such as the Commerce Department. The White House didn't comment Wednesday on the recommendations in the annual report to Congress. China sees "the so-called commission" as having "always been ideologically biased against China," said a Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesperson Wednesday. "There is no factual basis for the vilification and smear of China in various reports it has fabricated."