"Recent regulatory action by the DPC, together with complaints to other European supervisory authorities, has brought data transfers to China, in particular, into focus" [data transfers to China]
The DPC Deputy Commissioner explicitly names China data transfers as a strategic enforcement focus, directly supporting the claim that EU regulators are using cross-border transfer restrictions as a structural tool against Chinese platforms.
Reasoning from this article
The article documents two major cases (TikTok €530M fine, Shein inquiry) both centered on China data transfers, with the DPC stating this is now a 'strategic priority.' This is not ad-hoc enforcement but a deliberate regulatory architecture: GDPR Chapter V becomes the enforcement lever. The pattern generalizes beyond Shein and TikTok to any Chinese platform with EU user data, making it a structural shift in how the EU is partitioning digital markets along geopolitical lines.