Posted on 03/25/2019 8:22:58 PM PDT by NorseViking
Chinese President Xi Jinping shakes hands with veterans after attending a wreath laying ceremony with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron at the Arc de Triomphe monument, in Paris, France March 25, 2019. Francois Mori/Pool via REUTERSy Marine Pennetier
PARIS (Reuters) - Airbus signed a deal worth tens of billions of dollars on Monday to sell 300 aircraft to China, coinciding with a visit to Europe by Chinese President Xi Jinping and matching a China record held by U.S. rival Boeing.
The deal between Airbus and China's state buying agency, China Aviation Supplies Holding Company, which regularly coordinates headline-grabbing deals during diplomatic visits, will include 290 A320-family jets and 10 A350 wide-body jets.
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The Chinese like to pull PR stunts like this on foreign visits and airshows. The deals were in the works for quite some time.
Call off trade talks! Even if they buy more soybeans!
Before the 737-max debacle?
Maybe the ChiComs hacked a cause for the 737-max problems....
/tinfoil
Certainly! The meeting in Paris was planned for months. The same sort of oneupmanship happens at airshows.
Payback.
(1) Sabotage the 737 Max using spies and hackers
(2) Be first nation on Earth to ground all 737 Max's
(3) Score a huge order of 1000 Chinese 737-rival planes
(4) Place a massive Airbus order
(5) Brutal damage to American companies Boeing, American Airlines et al + loss of U.S. prestige complete
the Chi-Coms are playing for keeps, Mr. Trump.
Tripple the tariffs !
Congratulations to America’s closest European allies.
Now they’ve got money, will they shoulder a greater NATO financial burden in response to Trump’s demand?
Airbus is a European company, it must be noted, registered in the Netherlands and trading shares in France, Germany and Spain.
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