An attendant walks past EU and China flags ahead of the EU-China High-level Economic Dialogue at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, on June 25, 2018. [Photo/Agencies] In Europe, we are impressed by the rapid expansion of China's digital economy since the beginning of the century and the emergence of global Chinese digital players. Today, China is perceived as a trendsetter in fields such as e-commerce, financial technology, artificial intelligence and robotics. Chinese companies have a major advantage over their European counterparts: the huge volume of big data generated by more than 1 billion internet users and their internet transactions. However,…