

While that generally might be true, European joint defence projects including France unfortunately have a long tradition of having difficulties getting off the ground.
Granted, I’m looking at this from a German perspective and I’m keen to hear from a French perspective, but (reportedly) asking for a workload of 80% in a project involving three nations just seems like the priority is that your domestic producer (Dassault) builds it while the other countries pay for it.
I get that France cannot repeat the Rafale approach and have Dassault alone build a new domestic fighter, but then the workload should also be distributed fairly and the project be treated more than ‘European financing of Dassaults plans’.
Lol every time I see some knee-jerk comments defending China against whatever criticism, I know exactly what instance that user is coming from…