This is John Batcher, conversation with Rick Fisher of the International Assessment and Strategy

Center about China at the Singapore Air Show showing off a single-isled jet commercial travel

called the C919 built by the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of

China. Been boasting about this for years, been in production for years. Well here

it is. However, it turns out that China conceived this when it was seen

as a friendly and agreeable state that was looking to join the WTO and enter into world commerce.

Transformed these last years to a belligerent and extremely dangerous world power with weaponry

in all directions and threats daily. And what does that mean for the

C919? Rick Fisher is here to say that China didn't anticipate that it would go from worthy capitalist state to

hostile dictatorship and therefore it did not allow for the fact that it was building this out of what Rick

calls Frankenstein's model, parts from all over the world, despite the fact that China's

hostile to much of its neighborhood, to the United States, everywhere,

and has joined in with Russia in the aggression towards Europe, is Rick Fisher to explain the business plan that didn't change with the times.

It requires foreign built engines.

That's the major barrier, Gordon.

Without the indigenous engine, China cannot build them

and guarantee their operation even for Chinese airlines. And definitely selling them will be problematic. If China starts a war, which it is threatening to do

almost every other day.

We will not sell engines to China.

The Chinese airliners operated by foreign airlines will be grounded because we won't sell spare parts to ensure the function of

those engines.

That's probably the major barrier.

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