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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has called on the US and Europe to improve the sharing of information on companies that could create national security, signaling White House’s ambition. high security agreement and the EU after disagreements over a water security agreement.
Blinken’s proposals extend beyond this week’s agreement with the White House and the European Commission at the first trade and technical conference in Pittsburgh on new experiments linked to upcoming technology, external regulatory and foreign policy.
Speaking on the sidelines of the conference, Blinken told the Financial Times that Washington and Brussels could “do more” and “probably do better” by sharing more. “The truth is that we know and see and choose what our friends don’t know,” he said. “In the same way, they will know and see and choose things that we do not know.”
Blinken, who spoke to FT along with business secretary Gina Raimondo and US trade representative Katherine Tai, said it was “important” to have “appropriate ways to share the message in real time” with European counterparts.
Wednesday’s meeting took place despite pressure from France earlier this month in Brussels to go to suspend the meeting Annoyed by the Indo-Pacific alliance between the US, Australia and the UK, known as the Aukus, it left Paris and led to a crackdown on billions of French dollars a ship agreement.
Blinken’s call for a quick and accurate transatlantic explanation encourages calls from other Brussels officials to encourage contact with the White House after the fall. Establishing “ongoing dialogue.
U.S. officials, who met with EU trade chief Valdis Dombrovskis and EU digital marketing and competition chief Margrethe Vestager, were also keen to negotiate a deal.
U.S. President Joe Biden wants to “turn the page with the European Union to strengthen our relationship, to resolve conflicts and lead us to the expected partnership,” Tai said.
The U.S., which is concerned about companies affiliated with Chinese or Russian military and the deployment of “consumer” technologies that can use weapons, has also demanded that U.S. companies obtain government approval for the sale of technologies that could be difficult for companies such as Chinese telephones. Huawei company.
However, when Europe and the US said in a joint meeting on Wednesday that they had worked out a “strategic” solution to complex technologies, they simply referred to the conference “from time to time… Exchange information on how things are going”.
Under former President Donald Trump, the US has agreed to use a series of so-called Department of Commerce to force U.S. companies to obtain licenses before sending secret technologies to companies such as Huawei and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, China’s largest arms manufacturer.
Biden’s Department of Commerce continues to add companies to the list and ban US shipping to them. However, Raimondo argued that “inconsistent reinforcement in the context of” foreign policy “is” unhelpful “.
What makes this possible is the fact that EU member states have a national security responsibility, leaving the committee as a co-ordinating body to monitor and evaluate it. One third of all nationalities do not have a foreign policy law.
Blinken emphasized that Washington or Brussels did not want to go abroad to curb trade and currency. “The point is to identify the most difficult areas to work together and to create a high-quality fence around very small spaces, as opposed to placing the lowest fence around anything,” he said.