The world arms trade has been declining for the first time since 2005 | International

The world trade of arms has begun to grow. For the first time since 2005, in the last fifty years there have been fewer arms than in the previous year (-0.5%). The balance of Russian and Chinese exports contrasts with the increase in sales of EE UU, France and Germany, following the dates published on Monday by the Institute of Investigation for the International Pace of Estocolmo (Sipri). The crises are found in the Near East, North Africa, Japan and South Korea.

Alexandra Kuimova, co-author of the annual Sipri newsletter on world trade in armaments, points out that “the pandemic has had an impact, both on distribution and on new companies”. Without embarrassment, the analyst points out that he has other motives that influence him during his lifetime: the various national production programs that he has on the market, the drastic changes in the relationship between traditional societies, such as the case of Ankara and Washington . The calculation system used by the Sipri does not refer to the real prices of sales, but is based on the production costs of each artifact. The Swedish Research Institute estimates that the annual value of the global arms trade surpasses 75,000 million euros in the last few years.

EE UU raises its sales by 15% and declares its hegemonic position: in this case 40% of the equipment imported in the fifth quarter analyzed (2016-2020) due to state manufacturing. Washington’s exports are twice as high as those of Moscow, three years ago, following the principles of the last decade, when it came to equating. Among the 96 buyers of EE UU, are the increments in the acquisitions of Israel (335%) and Qatar (208%).

Russia’s exports were greatly affected by the demand of India — a major global arms importer between 1990 and 2019. The Governor of Narendra Modi reduced the number of military equipment purchases at the same time, with the intention of boosting the development of the national industry. Some agreements reached with China, Argelia and Egypt have amortized the gulf that the demand of the Indian demand has for the Russian factories. Returns on production plans and tensions with China and Pakistan suggest that New Delhi and Moscow buyers will return immediately.

Three varying exposures of exponential growth and one last year of frenzy, China sales are down 8%. The difficulties to gain access to the market of the Gulf monarchies are reflected in the Pekín planes. Its main buyer, Pakistan, has significantly reduced its imports, although Islamabad recently approved one of its major Chinese arms acquisitions, which will not be completed by 2028.

France incrementó de manera noemenswaardige sus exportaciones (44%). Pieter Wezeman, investigator of the Sipri, signals that the increase is mainly due to the log, “over two decades of intentions”, which sell Rafale combat aircraft. In order to export armament to over 70 countries, India, Egypt and Qatar receive 59% of the French material.

Las exportaciones de Alemania represents 5.5% of the total total (like a similar China), more than 20% of the country, so much todo por la venta de submarinos. Unlike in Paris, Berlin bans arms sales to Saudi Arabia in 2018. Korea Acquires a quarter of German manufacturing equipment. The top five exporters — United States, Russia, France, Germany and China — buy more than three-quarters of total sales.

The cases of France and Germany differ from the rest of the principal manufacturers of arms of Western Europe. The sales of the United Kingdom will be reduced by 27% (the most among the 10 mayors exporters); Italy, 22%, and Spain, 8%.

The case in the global arms trade is not much more agile than the repurchase of land in some lands. Saudi Arabia is advancing as the first global importer to raise its acquisitions by 61%. Qatar, blocked by its vehicles over the past year, multiplied by five in its acquisitions of military equipment.

One of the poorest countries in Doha, Turkey. Ankara continues to develop its national industry, increasing its export capacity (by 30%) while reducing its dependence on the exterior. Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Executive Director challenged his OTAN companies to accept the S-400 anti-aircraft defense system, which provoked Washington to suspend the summit of the F-35 cases. Turkey’s purchases in the EU are 80% higher. The West Indies’ presidency is moving to Ankara to find new providers. It is impossible to predict what this derivative will achieve, ”Wezeman points out.

Moreover, the wars of Turkey with Greece and Egypt over the hydrocarbons in the eastern Mediterranean have provoked that Athens and Cairo are strengthening their naval capacity. El régimen de Abdelfatá al Sisi, tercer receptor mundial, consists of 136% of the weapons that are in los cinco anos anteriores. Kuimova points out that “the lack of transparency and the willingness to refrain from the official accounts” generates many doubts about how financially the material required by El Cairo. Imports from Egypt, Argelia and Morocco add up to 90% of Africa’s imports.

The technological potentials, Israel and Korea of ​​the South, considerably increased their sales (a 59% and a 210%, respectively) and are located among the 10 main exporters. In addition, imports of more than 50% of both jobs. Japan, three years of tension with China over maritime disputes, acquired more of the military double material that in the previous five years.

Graduation of Venezuela imports

Venezuelan armaments imports are declining by 93% in the last five years with respect to the previous five years, following the Sipri dates. The mayor of Latin America has been buying arms during a decade has reduced cases by completing the acquisitions of the 2008 and 2013 months. Maduro in the period analyzed. For its part, Mexico’s purchases will be reduced by 15%, three years of increased increments, mainly to combat narcotics. Brazil’s imports also increased in the last five years. Without embargo, the Brazilian Army Fuerzas are in the process of receiving 35 Swedish cases, five French submarines and four German fragments.