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Thread/China sees standards as next front in power competition. “The strategic game among big powers is no longer limited to market scale competition or that for technological superiority. It is more about competition over system design and rule-making.” https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/11/chinas-next-plan-to-dominate-international-tech-standards/
2/China is constrained as many of their key regulatory institutions are not viewed globally as expert-based or arms-length. The Central government, however, has engaged in a long term reform to overcome this. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13563460600990731?tab=permissions&scroll=top&
3/ @YelingT new work in CPS demonstrates how bureaucrats in China used the WTO process in particular to mobilize. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0010414020912267?casa_token=TyjuvJ73FCoAAAAA%3A0Uc6LH1Jk10WxF5IUzMQZeDYdJfnxJmBoYcZqXEktMIpVmY7o69mKAx-SWH2S9uIFM9lmzisrGjKhg
4/China has used this new bureaucratic capacity to shape multilateral rules at the same time that the US has abandoned many of these fora. https://www.ft.com/content/ba94c2bc-6e27-11ea-9bca-bf503995cd6f
5/The risk exists that Chinese standards will come to dominate key infrastructures of globalization. This could shift the balance in what @henryfarrell describe as weaponized interdependence. https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/isec_a_00351
6/Points to a real geostrategic risk of undermining regulatory capacity in the US as partisan maneuvering produce attacks on expertise and regulatory capacity. See this piece w/ @dhnexon https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/11/17/beijing-washington-bernie-sanders-warren-american-market-power-can-serve-progressive-ends/
