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Exclusive: China tried to add a last minute clause to EU investment deal that would have frozen benefits for EU states that banned Huawei https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3116896/china-tried-punish-european-states-huawei-bans-adding
Text reviewed by the Post showed the footnote added to a chapter vowing to open cloud computing access to EU firms, revealing an aggressive negotiating position from China late in the day
The footnote was struck-through by EU negotiators and is unlikely to have made the final text of the deal - details of which @stuartklau and I revealed last week https://www.scmp.com/economy/global-economy/article/3115842/china-eu-investment-deal-draft-text-shows-beijing-broadly
Experienced negotiators said this was a "classic negotiating tactic" by China, one they'd seen many times by Beijing.
"Until the last minute, they tried to really bulldoze everybody by imposing language, which is absolutely unacceptable to the other party," said one
"Until the last minute, they tried to really bulldoze everybody by imposing language, which is absolutely unacceptable to the other party," said one
It comes amid a new Huawei row rumbles on in Sweden, where Ericsson's CEO reportedly threatened to leave the country over the gov decision to ban the Chinese firm from 5G network https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/ericsson-ceo-lobbied-swedish-minister-over-huawei-ban-report
