Technical standard setting has emerged in recent years as one of the key battlegrounds in the struggle among states to gain dominance in high-technology sectors. While the core competition is between China and the United States, there are serious implications for the European Union and European enterprises as well. This is one of several factors that is leading to increased politicisation of technical standardisation, which has raised the risk of bifurcation, fragmentation and decoupling of standards.

While the European Union maintains a vital interest in China’s integration into international standard developing organisations, China’s growing influence presents challenges to the current predominant model of standardisation, which is private, voluntary and self-regulatory in nature. China’s recently published standardisation strategy is indicative of the future direction it will take in this realm, and outlines its ambition to engage even more in international standard setting.

The European Chamber, in partnership with the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) and the Swedish National China Centre, is releasing a report on China’s domestic and international standardisation activities, and their impact on European business. The European Chamber is delighted to invite you to the online launch of The Shape of Things to Come: The Race to Control Technical Standardisation on 2^nd December.

Agenda

15:00 – 15:05     Opening Remarks

• Dr Björn Fägersten, senior research fellow and director of UI's Europe Programme

15:05 – 15:40     Presentation of the Standardisation Report key findings

• Jörg Wuttke, President, European Chamber
• Dr Tim Rühlig, former research fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs

15:40 – 16:15     Q&A

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Speakers

Dr. Björn Fägersten

Senior Research Fellow and Director of UI's Europe Programme

Dr. Björn Fägersten

Senior Research Fellow and Director of UI's Europe Programme

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Björn Fägersten is Senior Research Fellow and Director of UI's Europe Programme. He conducts research on European integration, security policy, intelligence, international institutions and political risk. Current projects involve Geopolitical consequences of Brexit, intelligence cooperation within international security institutions, and the concept of political risk in public and private sectors.

Björn Fägersten has a PhD in political science from Lund University, Sweden, and has held research fellowships at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and at the European University Institute. He has published in peer-reviewed journals on European security cooperation and the design of intelligence institutions.

Dr. Tim Rühlig

Former Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs

Dr. Tim Rühlig

Former Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs

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im Rühlig is a Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs since 2018. His work focuses on EU-China relations as well as Chinese foreign policy. He is researching China’s foreign economic policy and its implications for Europe in general and the role of technical standardisation in particular. Mr. Rühlig holds a PhD from the University of Frankfurt in which he investigated how the Chinese party-state copes with globalization and the transformation of the state. In 2018, he was the coordinator of the European Think Tank Network on China (ETNC) and lead editor of the network’s annual report assessing the role of political values in Europe-China relations. Mr. Rühlig is also a management committee member of the new-found "China in Europe Research Network" funded by the European Union. He has been a visiting research fellow to several institutions including the China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing and the European Institute for Asian Studies in Brussels. Previously, he has studied political science, cultural anthropology, international relations and peace and conflict research. He was a research associate at the Cluster of Excellence “The formation of normative orders” in Frankfurt and has worked on political implications of social media discourses in China.

Mr. Jörg Wuttke

Chief Representative China, BASF (China) Co., Ltd.

Mr. Jörg Wuttke

Chief Representative China, BASF (China) Co., Ltd.

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Jörg Wuttke is Chief Representative of BASF China, based in Beijing.
Jörg Wuttke was President of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China from 2007 to 2010, 2014 to 2017 and again from 2019 to 2023. From 2001 to 2004 Mr. Wuttke was the Chairman of the German Chamber of Commerce in China.
Since its establishment in 2013, Mr. Wuttke is member of the Advisory Board of Germany’s foremost Think Tank on China, Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS), in Berlin. He lived in China for more than 30 years.

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