China Helps Set ISO and IEC Standards for Low-Altitude Economy

Standard-setting is where commercial drone rules get locked in, so China's push through ISO and IEC matters less as a technical milestone than as a positioning move: whoever writes the sense-and-avoid and identification specs shapes what global operators must build to. The UAS license and safety-module testing proposal is the more telling item, since identification is the layer regulators lean on for airspace access. Whether these proposals progress to publication, and how other standards blocs respond, is the open question.