France and Germany scrap fighter jet plan <\/p>\n
France and Germany pulled the plug <\/a>on plans to jointly build a next-generation fighter jet on Monday, a core pillar of Europe\u2019s largest defense project. The $115.6 billion <\/a>Future Combat Air System (FCAS) defense initiative was launched by Macron and former German Chancellor Angela Merkel back in 2017, but months of disagreements<\/a> between the companies involved, France\u2019s Dassault Aviation and European Airbus representing Germany, culminated in its collapse. Hinted at being primarily a backout by Berlin, the scrapped plans are less than ideal for hopes of greater European security collaboration in an era of growing concern about American defense commitments and fears of Russian aggression<\/a> on the continent.<\/p>\n Venezuela\u2019s Rodr\u00edguez takes her show on the road<\/p>\n As part of her first major international tour since the US seized her former boss Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, Venezuela\u2019s Interim President Delcy Rodr\u00edguez met<\/a> with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan in Ankara on Monday with the aim of boosting trade with the transcontinental state. Maduro and Erdo\u011fan got along well: the ousted Venezuelan strongman attended the Turkish leader\u2019s 2023 inauguration, while Erdo\u011fan was one of the few world leaders to recognize Maduro as the Venezuelan leader. Ankara, for its part, is interested<\/a> in Venezuela\u2019s energy, mining, and gold. Rodr\u00edguez\u2019s trip to Turkey follows one to India last week, highlighting her efforts to boost trade with countries outside the West. What\u2019s notable is that neither India nor Turkey is a close ally of China, either, suggesting that Rodr\u00edguez is still mindful of Washington as she bids to boost Venezuela\u2019s standing on the world stage.<\/p>\n Taiwan chip rules could squeeze Beijing, and please WashingtonTaiwan is reportedly<\/a> weighing new export controls on AI chip sales to Beijing, potentially bringing its policy closer to current US regulations. While Taiwan does not currently ban the sale of AI chips to China, it warns domestic companies that doing so could violate US rules. This gray zone has created<\/a> a sophisticated smuggling network \u2013 especially involving Nvidia chips \u2013 into China, whose semiconductor industry still depends heavily on foreign technology. Formal export controls would give Taipei the legal basis to prosecute smugglers directly, but such a move would likely trigger some economic retaliation from Beijing. The timing is notable for US\u2013Taiwan relations as well, coming after US President Donald Trump paused<\/a> a $14 billion arms deal to the island last month. Could this move help Taiwan win Trump over?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France and Germany scrap fighter jet plan France and Germany pulled the plug on plans to jointly build…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[31132,18,31129,31130,60,5,7002,24449,31131,788,2946],"class_list":["post-33206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-ai-chips","tag-berlin","tag-delcy-rodrguez","tag-erdogan","tag-france","tag-germany","tag-macron","tag-taiwan","tag-trumo","tag-turkey","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}