{"id":270930,"date":"2026-06-12T04:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/eu-tech-sovereignty-may-be-illusion-as-china-us-dominate-ai-chinese-expert\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T04:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T08:30:10","slug":"eu-tech-sovereignty-may-be-illusion-as-china-us-dominate-ai-chinese-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/eu-tech-sovereignty-may-be-illusion-as-china-us-dominate-ai-chinese-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"EU tech sovereignty may be \u2018illusion\u2019 as China, US dominate AI: Chinese expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3356882\/eu-tech-sovereignty-may-be-illusion-china-us-dominate-ai-chinese-expert\">EU tech sovereignty may be \u2018illusion\u2019 as China, US dominate AI: Chinese expert<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3356882\/eu-tech-sovereignty-may-be-illusion-china-us-dominate-ai-chinese-expert\">https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3356882\/eu-tech-sovereignty-may-be-illusion-china-us-dominate-ai-chinese-expert<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-12 04:05:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.scmp.com\">www.scmp.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The EU\u2019s concept of <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">tech sovereignty<\/span> may prove an \u201cillusion\u201d in a world where artificial intelligence is dominated by China and the US, a Chinese expert has argued, urging Beijing to seize the opportunity provided by Trump to render its products \u201cindispensable\u201d to middle powers.In a bid to help the bloc become \u201ca global leader\u201d in <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">artificial intelligence<\/span> and protect its \u201cdigital independence\u201d, the European Union rolled out its Technological Sovereignty Package last week.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The EU defined tech sovereignty as the ability \u201cto develop, control and scale &#8230; critical technologies, infrastructure, services and data\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">On June 4, Canada also designated \u201cbuilding the Canadian sovereign AI foundation\u201d as one of the pillars of its C$2.3 billion ($1.6 billion) national AI strategy.<\/p>\n<p><span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Japan<\/span>, South Korea and <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">India<\/span> are also working towards strengthening their AI autonomy.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Those efforts came amid growing unease among these countries about becoming mere bystanders as Beijing and Washington duke it out for AI supremacy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3356882\/eu-tech-sovereignty-may-be-illusion-china-us-dominate-ai-chinese-expert\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EU tech sovereignty may be \u2018illusion\u2019 as China, US dominate AI: Chinese expert https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3356882\/eu-tech-sovereignty-may-be-illusion-china-us-dominate-ai-chinese-expert Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":270931,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/og_image_scmp_generic\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/06\/12\/d04d9814-b2b9-41a6-8d78-4166d709d809_fe74514e.jpg?itok=MP6gLNLd&v=1781250584","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270932,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270930\/revisions\/270932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}