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.”
Committee chairman Tom Tugendhat asks a question as Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab (not pictured) gives evidence to the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee in London on Sept. 1, 2021. (House of Commons/Screenshot via PA)
Despite the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) “explicit strategy for exporting and embedding its own authoritarian principles of technology governance across the world,” the MPs said, the British government’s response has so far been “incoherent and muted.”…