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In recent years, the competition for control over international standards have been seen to affect the future balance of power among countries. What makes standards grow in importance from simply being technical specifications to acting as a strategic resource in international relations? How is standards development strategy historically associated with foreign policies? This paper aims to explore the international political process that leads from confrontation to cooperation through standardization by analyzing the changes in the actors, scope, purpose, and means of standards development in China, which is becoming active in international standardization activities.