China to Challenge Boeing and Airbus

Financial Times ^ | 3-18-07 | Richard McGregor

[Babu]

China plans to mount a head-on challenge to the dominance of Boeing and Airbus in the global market for big passenger jets by setting up a state-owned company to build the aircraft.

A statement on the government’s website issued late on Sunday said the state council – the cabinet – had taken an “important strategic decision” to begin research and development to enter the market.

[Babu]

... figured this was coming.

[TheBattman]

Lets see - they have purchased models from all the major manufacturers and had years to reverse engineer them. This is the standard operating procedure for the WTO member, and Most Favorable Trade Status China....

[panaxanax]

You all still thinks it's a good idea to trade technology and buy our plane parts from China?

[spokeshave]

And they get subcontract jobs so gain experience with putting it all together.

And don't get me started on all those assembly lines the chicoms brought for "scrap"

[roscommon]

China is doing what it does best -- copying its way into the 21st century.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

The Feng-Shuei 5000-XL Mk II!

[Prokopton]

You all still thinks it's a good idea to trade technology and buy our plane parts from China?

It might not be all bad. We will probably be able to buy a new Dreamliner from Walmart for a couple grand.

[Rembrandt]

I rode on a Tupolev back in 1996, from Hai Phong to Da Nang. It was a very cheap knock off of a 707, cheaply built (rattled) with engines too powerful for the airframe. There were cockroaches crawling across the interior walls! I was very happy to get off that plane.

Count on a Commie to bollox up a simple task.

[GaryMontana]

Boeing was stupid to move part of the construction of jet parts to China -- out of greed they will give the Chinese the rope to hang their airline industry.

Stupid shortsighted idiots

[Cringing Negativism Network]

And so it begins...

[DB]

I don't know about you, but I won't knowingly step foot on a Chinese plane anytime soon. They can't even make a decent car much less something that's supposed to fly...

[Norman Arbuthnot]

Some the "free trade" zealots, such as Larry Kudlow, will probably applaud this development.

I can just hear it now, "I don't have problem with Boeing going out of business if it means that American airlines can buy cheaper aircraft, which will benefit the consumer".

[Proud_USA_Republican]

The chinese are licking their chops at Airbust right now. They will simply have them move more and more assembly work to China in exchange for buying some planes.

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[rmlew]

This was obvious.
Too bad American manufacterers REFUSED TO LEARN that then you open upo a plant in China, you give them your technology. That is a betrayal of your corporate interests for a few short-term dollars.
It is also a betrayal of this countries investment into our military industrial base by corporations with miltary contracts.

[panaxanax]

"We will probably be able to buy a new Dreamliner from Walmart for a couple grand."

Be sure to save your receipt because you'll be returning it when the wings fall off.

Here's a thread you might be interested in.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1801135/posts

[panaxanax]

"And don't get me started on all those assembly lines the chicoms brought for "scrap"

Be careful, you might be labeled as a "protectionist" like I was if you protest the selling of America to the lowest bidder (China).

[green iguana]

It depends on what parts Boeing is having China build. Kind of like Intel's plan to build a chip factory over there - it'll be a 90nm fab, whereas Intel's plants here will be running at 45nm this summer (two generations ahead.) China is 15 years away, minimum, from being able to build a passenger plane that anyone but their own airlines will fly.

[panaxanax]

Better link.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1801135/posts