European arms imports rose 155 per cent in 2020-24. Ukraine has become the world’s biggest arms importer following Russia’s 2022 invasion. U.S. companies increasing their share of global arms exports to 43 per cent. Britain, the Netherlands and Norway among the top buyers of European arms. The war has underlined Europe’s dependence on U.N. arms although the trans-Atlantic alliance, the foundation of Europe’s security strategy since World War Two, is increasingly being questioned. The United States supplied more than 50 per cent of Europe’s arms imports from 2020-2024, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) China produced more of its own weapons than the next eight countries combined in the four years to 2020-2014. The U.K. and France were the only two countries to produce more weapons than China in the same period, the SIPRI data showed. The Russian arms exports dropped to 7.8% of the global market in the 2020-14 period, compared to 21% in the previous four-year period, as a result of international sanctions over the war in Ukraine and increased domestic demand for weapons.Asia and Oceania’s arms imports dropped 21 per cent, mainly because of China producing more of Its own weapons.