China Stalls Airbus Deliveries, Memory Chip Frenzy, More
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News when you want it with Bloomberg News Now. I'm Caroline Hepke. There are signs that China is becoming a growing pressure point for European trade. Sources tell Bloomberg that Beijing has been dragging its feet on approvals for Airbus plane deliveries as EU regulators take longer to certify China's domestically made aircraft. And despite being the world's largest commercial jet maker, Airbus delivered its fewest jets to China in the first quarter since 2009. The reporting comes as Brussels prepares possible new measures to counter China's exports surge and widening trade imbalance with Europe. Jens Eskelund is president of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China.
We are seeing that China is beginning to develop an extraterritorial regulatory toolbox similar to what we see in the United States. And sometimes some of these regulations are in direct contradiction with each other. This is something that creates uncertainty. We don't know how to comply sometimes, in particular if there are contradictions. So I think there's a lot of uncertainty on the regulatory agenda right now.
Escalon's comments come as a new survey for the Chamber shows that European firms in China are becoming more optimistic, though, about their business outlook. But despite signs of improvement, business confidence remains near historic lows. By several measures, 68% of respondents saying that business conditions in their industry are becoming more difficult, have become more difficult over the past year. Now, the UK's top cyber spy is set to warn that the West is losing its technological edge over China. The caution comes as the country's National Cyber Security Centre reports a 50% spike in major attacks. Punebog's Tiwa Adebayo has more.
Her speech is set to mark the 80th anniversary of a founding Anglosphere Intelligence Alliance, but in it, Anne-Kiese Butler will warn the West is falling behind. The director of Britain's Signals Intelligence Agency, GCHQ, is set to make a rare public speech to mark the occasion. According to excerpts released by her office, she will use the address to highlight China's progress in intelligence, cyber and military capabilities, adding that the UK is running out of time to preserve its advantage. The agency chief will also accuse Russia of relentlessly targeting critical infrastructure, spotlighting her agency's work to disrupt their efforts. In London, Tiwa Adebayo, Bloomberg Radio.
The US is again signalling progress in peace talks with Iran despite fresh hostilities this week and continued uncertainty around the Strait of Hormuz. Security in the critical waterway remains unclear after both sides exchanged strikes, while the US military pushed back on reports that it was helping to escort commercial vessels through the Strait. Republican Senator Rick Scott says that reaching any deal with Iran will be difficult.
Do I believe it's going to be easy to get a deal? I think it's going to be hard. I mean, these are ideologues. So I'm optimistic.
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