“During the visit of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to China no progress was made in any substantive area of European interest, neither on Ukraine, nor on the pressing issue of Chinese overcapacities challenging the EU market. However, a joint statement on dialogue and collaboration in the field of automated driving and connected vehicles”. Janka Oertel, director of the Asia Program of Ecfr, European Council on Foreign Relations, says this.
“The joint statement undermines ongoing efforts in the EU to reach a collective position on the nexus between green technologies, data and national security. It comes just days after Commission Executive Vice-President Vestager spoke in Princeton, calling for a new G7 initiative on reliability criteria for critical green technologies, and in the wake of intense discussions overseas, the US government's Advanced Notice on Proposed Rule-Making (ANPRM) on the national security aspect of connected vehicles is defining the tone of the next US approach to the topic”, continues the expert.
“It's a galling sign that Germany appears to be out of step with its partners and allies when it comes to cybersecurity risks emanating from China. The continued reliance on 5G infrastructure is just one example: Connected vehicles appear to be the next solo thing The statement seems like a flashback to the Obama-era No-Spy agreement in 2015, which was not very successful, to say the least. Things have changed dramatically since then, but not for the better has an interest in facilitating data transfer from connected vehicles in China and there is a sincere desire to find common ground whether this is actually possible is very questionable,” concludes Oertel.
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