Trump's tariffs are a make-or-break moment for China's upstart planemaker Comac

Trump's tariffs are a make-or-break moment for China's upstart planemaker Comac

The Comac C919 relies on dozens of US manufacturers.Li Tong/VCG via Getty ImagesA trade war between the US and Europe could see more airlines turn to China's Comac, analysts said.However, Comac also relies heavily on US parts that already face enormous tariffs.At the moment, Airbus looks set to benefit as China turns away Boeing deliveries.China's new planemaker could find fortune or ruin depending on the future of Donald Trump's tariff plan.Com…

China and the US are in the trade war. While US President Trump, among other things, spares the EU, Comac wants to benefit from this and negotiate a deal with Airbus for CFM engines from the US.

China's COMAC mulls routing LEAP engines via Airbus

The Chinese government is considering asking Airbus (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac) to assist in delivering CFM International LEAP engines for the C919 aircraft, Bloomberg has reported citing internal sources. This could help COMAC (Shanghai Pudong) bypass the retaliatory tariffs imposed on US imports into China. Under the proposal, any Airbus aircraft delivered to China could be supplied with an extra set of engines. This would potentially qualify the …

When Trump wanted to choose his economic advisor for his first term, he asked his son-in-law Kushner (Ivanka's husband) for help, on the condition that the advisor could offer suggestions that would make him appear strong against China. Instead of searching for anyone from his own circle or from economic academics, Kushner searched directly on Amazon for economic books, sorting them by sales. He found the book "Death by China" by Peter Navarro, …