The US has raised with European allies the idea of drawing upon lessons from the export control regime they’re using to punish Russia to target China, according to people familiar with the matter.
The conversations came up as European Union and US officials are negotiating the agenda for their next high-level trade forum in early December.
Export controls have been one of the more effective tools to cripple Russia’s arsenal and are seen as potentially useful to slow down China in the global tech race. Earlier this month, the Biden administration restricted US companies from selling some chips used for supercomputing and artificial intelligence to Chinese firms.
But European countries are increasingly worried about what they see as the confrontational stance of the Chinese government, in particular following the recent party congress that cemented President Xi Jinping’s leadership. Some member states including Germany have suggested that the bloc should revise its approach toward China, as Beijing is becoming less a partner or a competitor and more a rival, the people said.
Commission spokesperson Miriam Garcia Ferrer said that contacts with the US administration are ongoing as the EU analyzes the implications of the latest US restrictive measures on China. Negotiations ahead of the next TTC meeting have been hampered by the recently passed US Inflation Reduction Act, which provides subsidies to support green technologies in the US and is seen as discriminatory by the EU and other countries. Officials from both sides are scheduled to meet this week to address the European concerns, and the EU executive’s arm hoped to solve these irritants before the high-level meeting takes place in early December.
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