Boeing deal subject to many conditions and also time factor

I do not think the Boeing deal is realistically possible. We must remember that Boeing is one of the USA's main weapon manufacturers and helping Boeing is not in the interest of China. China should even stop supplying rare earth elements and titanium, among other components to Boeing under a dual use prohibition. But Boeing and Airbus had been given the exemption earlier.

In any case, China is trying to compete in the aviation sector as well, with COMAC and the C919 plane already on the market. Why help Boeing when certification of its C919 had been stymied by the West? So, unless China can get certification for the C919 and other planes made by COMAC, China must pay back the USA in its own coin by not buying from Boeing.

Trump can gloat all he can about the deal, but are the deals already signed? China needs thousands of planes for its expanding domestic aviation sector alone, and Boeing knows the market in China is immense and cannot be ignored.


Anonymous