Someone told me a joke:It is a tabloid. Most of the time it prints BS. But typically it is BS with some vague connection to the truth.
You can't blame Rheinmetall. The German government has underfunded the armaments industry in general for decades. Companies like Rheinmetall exist because of exports basically. And the government even prevents those. A couple years back they blocked exports to Turkey. They wanted to upgrade their Leopard 2 tanks. Because those tanks were not upgraded, when Turkey when into Northern Syria their tanks started being blown up by Kurdish ATGMs from the SDF. As you might imagine that isn't terribly good publicity for your product.
I think Thailand is playing it smart. And those other countries are the usual suspects. I mean, just look at Russia's list of unreliable countries.
USA: jump!
Singapore government: how high?