[TigerLikesRooster]

Well, I guess they will have to use Boeing or Airbus for troop transport when they would invade Taiwan, which will happen sooner than 2020.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

At current rates of fuel exhaustion, planes in 2020 or 2030 will be powered by coal.

[politicalwit]

"Even if China decides to go ahead with the project, any large jetliner would likely need a lot of Western input,"

For some reason a passenger jet with little gold stickers saying "Made in China" under the seats just doesn't say "safe" to me.

[Brian Allen]

<< Meanwhile, AVIC I's joint venture with McDonald-Douglas to produce the 150-seat MD-90 was discontinued after ..... >>

.... The Clinton-urged chinese built tail-plane trim-jack stripped and failed and caused the loss of an Alaska MD-80 off the California coast.

[A. Pole]

China, which is still trying to develop a market for domestically built 70- to- 90-seat regional jets, was a long way off matching Boeing and Airbus' efficiencies in design, marketing, branding and after-sale service, he said. But "China has the advantage of low labor costs, so if they convert that into an accepted format of aircraft, they could have a good response from airlines looking to lower costs", Sadubin said.

The solution is very easy. Instead of costly and time consuming development of Chinese aircraft it is enough to ask the freetraders to relocate Boeing and Airbus into China.

[Khurkris]

"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer." --Frank Zappa

I guess TsingTao qualifies them.