Comment by Margrethe Vestager

Former EU Commission executive vice-president for Competition; AI governance advocate
It’s a very big issue. So from Europe, when we look at China, we see a very complex relationship. We need China as a partner in fighting climate change. Without China on board, it will not happen. But China is also a systemic rival in how they see their mode of governing versus our democracies. [...] We need a European prism for export controls. Each country has their own competences, but we need to have a European prism to look at that. And then we have taken the first steps to try to figure out how to prevent that some which circumvents export controls by outbound investments. And be very careful, because Europe is really open for business.
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AI Verified The quote is authentic. The Atlantic Council transcript at the provided URL is dated January 30, 2024, identifies the speaker as Margrethe Vestager, and contains the quoted passages in the same wording, with the omitted middle section falling between them. The stored author, date, source URL, and content are correct. ([atlanticcouncil.org](https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/commentary/transcript/gina-raimondo-and-margrethe-vestager-on-transatlantic-approaches-to-trade-ai-and-china/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3d ago
Disputed The Atlantic Council source URL is a January 30, 2024 event transcript that attributes these remarks to Margrethe Vestager, and the quoted sentences do appear there. However, the submitted block is not verbatim as written: the source has several intervening sentences between the first paragraph and the later export-controls passage, so this is a spliced excerpt without an ellipsis/[...] marking the omission. That makes the presented quote materially edited rather than an exact quotation. ([atlanticcouncil.org](https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/commentary/transcript/gina-raimondo-and-margrethe-vestager-on-transatlantic-approaches-to-trade-ai-and-china/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 5d ago
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