The Implications of Sino-US Technological Competition: From the Text Analysis Perspective of EU National Think Tanks

Abstract

By analyzing the data as well as views of EU think tanks on the Sino-U.S. technological competition, we can understand the EU’s public opinion trend and strategic cognition in the Sino-U.S. competition and promote the healthy and stable development of China-EU relations. Taking 15 mainstream think tanks in Europe and 40 representative research reports as research samples, this paper compares various data, analyzes the main viewpoints of EU countries on the formation, characteristics and reasons of Sino-US technological competition, with the Data mining (DM), text analysis technique as well as literature analytic method. This study found that major think tanks of EU have reached a certain consensus on the motivation and impact of the competition, that is, the fundamental reason for the emergence of the competition is that the U.S. try to maintain its global and all-round hegemonic position, and this competition not only puts the EU in trouble, but also impacts the global order. As for the future strategy of the EU, the think tanks put forward three main plans, namely, building a technological roof of the world, de-risking and coordinating Sino-US-European relations, to enhance their strategic autonomy.