Financial Times: Technology: How the US, EU and China Compete to Set Industry Standards

Access Partnership's Xiaomeng Lu spoke to Financial Times on China's approach to technology standards: "China employs a “carrot and stick” strategy to deal with foreign players in standardisation — “mostly carrots in global environments and mostly sticks in domestic standardisation processes.” Read the full story here.

Access Partnership’s Xiaomeng Lu spoke to Financial Times on China’s approach to technology standards:

“China employs a “carrot and stick” strategy to deal with foreign players in standardisation — “mostly carrots in global environments and mostly sticks in domestic standardisation processes”. In international standards organisations, Ms Lu says, Chinese officials offered business deals under the table to foreign companies in exchange for their votes on Chinese technical proposals. But when setting its own standards, Ms Lu says, China uses the stick on foreign companies, often excluding them from discussions.”

Read the full story here.

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