Why are any planes built in Europe or America anymore?
Chinese labor is quickly trainable, and is far cheaper than either place. True efficiency is found by outsourcing all heavy manufacturing to China. The "China" price can't be beaten. Surely none will argue for the economic inefficiency of employing high cost European or American laborers who are fully replaceable by a Chinese at a quarter of the price.
Airbus needs to bite the bullet and export all manufacturing to China. Boeing will be unable to compete in those circumstances, and will soon do the same. Nationalistic concerns about employing AMERICAN or FRENCH workers are passe. A worker is a worker, just another cost of production. Business is about maximizing profit to shareholders. Nationalistic concerns about employment have no bearing on that. It is inefficient to employ Americans or Europeans. The China price is unbeatable. In the interest of shareholder returns, the quicker American and European assembly lines are shut down and transferred to China and India, the more efficient for the overall profits of the company. That's what counts in capitalism.
The French and Germans are so quaint, trying to use government power to protect FRENCH people and GERMAN people.
Airbus is caught in a government squeeze. To a lesser extent, fortunately for business, so are the Americans. Toyota builds cars in Ohio. But the same car could be built in Sichuan and imported to America for a third of the price, then sold at 30% off the retail American price. Nobody could compete with that!
It's time to shut down Western manufacturing and transfer it all to China. The workers there don't strike, they are trainable. They are not unionized. And there's no political ramifications of laying them off. The China Price is unbeatable. And the first company to fully realize that and GET OUT of America and Europe, will be the one that maximizes profit.
In a global capitalistic marketplace, economic nationalism and protection of domestic jobs is a chumps game that cuts into profits for investors. Capitalism is about maximizing profit. Spending more than you have to on a commodity, labor, is bad for profits, and that's dumb business.
I think you are a damned fool. We cant and wont fully surrender our industrial base to communist china.
Great satire. It cuts uncomfortably close to the truth which, of course, is what satire is all about. I'd like to laugh but I can't.
Quality standards in Chinese manaufacturing are not to the exacting standards they need to be to manufacture Airframes. Given time they will be, but even then it will be some time before travelers, air carriers, and insurance companies grow accustomed to the idea that Chinese labor and engineering can produce reliable airframes.
I would also say that by that time (20 or 30 years) Chinese prices will have found equillibrium with western pricing for like products. IOW Chinese labor and manufacturing will enjoy a higher wage and standard of living.
Why don't we just lend them a few (thousand) illegal aliens?
It'll help us both out.
That WAS sarcasm....wasn't it???
Should a war occur between China and the US who do you propose that we hire to build our military aircraft? Should we also have China build our nuclear submarines, warships and military aircraft?
Seriously, what country are you a citizen of?
Excellent, pure capitalist, post!