Europe must choose between US or Chinese satellite tech, says FCC chair

European allies who have reservations about working with Alon Musk Starlink will have more concern if they are standing alongside Chinese internet services, the head of the Federal Communications Committee Brendan Car said the Financial times. Carr said that the policy that has a long -term decisions in Europe was “painful”, and that “allied Western democracies” should instead focus on “the real ghost in the long term: the rise of the Chinese Communist Party.”
“If you are concerned about Starlink, you just have to wait for the CCP version, you will be really concern,” Carr told Carr. The Times. “If Europe has its satellite constellation, I think they were the best thing. But on a larger scale, I think Europe has signed a little between the United States and China. It is time to choose.”
Starlink, owned by Musk’s Spacex, is the largest international Satial constellation operator, providing internet and limited communication via mobile via a network of 7135 satellites. Some European governments and companies have suspended the Starlink purchase negotiations and I started exploring other options In the last weeks yet Musk said on x The “entire front line” will collapse in Ukraine if it stops reaching the country.
Car said The Times He believed that Europe was “arrested” between Washington and Beijing and that he was concerned about a “great gap” in Amnesty International and satellite technology that was opening between “CCP alignment and others”.
These comments come amid the escalation of collapses in the relationship between European governments and the United States since Donald Trump entered power and A bed with wealthy American technology leaders. Carr said that European organizers – who have many continuous investigations into Meta, Applefor GoogleAnd x He had a “bias” against American technology companies. Car also accused the European Commission of “protectionism” and has a “hostile to the United States”, according to Times.