BRUSSELS — U.S. and European Union officials are planning for a high-tech divorce from China, with the launch of a council that could enable the transatlantic alliance to establish a “common market” unstained by Beijing’s espionage and human rights abuses.

“In general, the idea would be to open and to become as a common market for the tech, to come closer and closer,” a senior Baltic official familiar with the conception of the Trade and Technology Council told the Washington Examiner.

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