2024-05-03 17:30:13
By Bertille Bayart
Published 45 minutes ago, Updated 16 minutes ago
Xi Jinping (right) visited the facilities of shipowner China Shipping in San Pedro, California in 2012. Bob Chamberlin/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
INVESTIGATION – From airport screening equipment to port software, Chinese companies have gained positions that raise concerns, particularly regarding the risk of data collection.
Maybe it was one contract too many. By winning the Strasbourg airport market in the fall of 2022 for the supply of security scanners for hold baggage and security barriers, the Chinese company Nuctech attracted attention that it would have done well without: that of European parliamentarians, the first likely to have their suitcases inspected by this equipment. Three of them, the Dutchman Bart Groothuis (Renew), the Frenchwoman Nathalie Loiseau (Renew) and the German Reinhard Bütikofer (Greens), had at the time taken up the pen to ask that this contract be reconsidered.
A year and a half later, Europe took action in the face of the Nuctech case. On April 23, officials from the Commission’s Competition Directorate carried out surprise inspections at the company’s offices in Europe, notably in the Netherlands and Poland, as part of an investigation under the fight against abusive subsidies.
Also read: Bertille Bayart: “This Chinese industrial tsunami that is coming”
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