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# CEPA's Borsari: breaking Europe's dependence on Chinese drones will be hard
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2026-05-28-cepa-china-drone-dependency/
- Published: 2026-05-28T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-18T13:55:45.000Z
- Description: CEPA fellow Federico Borsari argues bans and subsidies alone cannot break China's 80 to 90 percent share of the global drone market, and that Europe's 2035 target of 60 percent domestic defence procurement needs long term planning and mandatory interoperable tenders.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Defence and space, Industry, investment and R&D, #news, #verified, #opinion, #abroad, #ai-drafted

Verified Opinion Abroad AI-drafted [CEPA article, 28 May 2026](https://cepa.org/article/reality-check-breaking-free-from-chinas-drone-ecosystem-is-harder-than-you-think/?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** Does not establish that any EU member state has adopted the modular open systems or tender rules the author proposes.

**How this item counts.** No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0\. opinion on drone supply chain dependency; moves nothing until acted on. [European Sovereignty Index](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/sovereignty-index/)

**How this item was made.** Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above and published under the editor’s responsibility without a person reading it first. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)