EU to discuss greater defence cooperation in face of US-China tensions

European leaders fear two powers are becoming embroiled in permanent confrontation

EU ministers are to discuss the need for greater defence cooperation and a renewed intelligence assessment in the face of a heightened risk of a China-US military confrontation.

The call for greater EU defence cooperation comes in a Franco-German joint paper and, although familiar, has been given added urgency by fears in the bloc that the US and China will become locked in a permanent big power confrontation.

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