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| China to order up to 150 Airbus jets during Sarkozy visit | |
| 2007-11-24 | |
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| Posted by:lotp |
| #4 China has a long history of rejecting higher quality American hardware in favor of buying any trash that isn't made in the USA. It will be a pleasure to watch other Asian airlines that buy Boeing's Dreamliner eat China's lunch as fuel costs erode passenger mile profitability. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-11-24 21:36 |
| #3 They're going to be used to transport sightseers to the Three Gorges Dam. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2007-11-24 14:40 |
| #2 Since when have the Chinese been worried about safety? And heck, they have all those dollars sitting around devaluing anyway, might as well dump the lot on Euros [who if they're smart will hold on to them for when sanity hits the financial markets again and their paper sinks again - like when Iran threatens its oil neighbors with nukes]. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2007-11-24 08:28 |
| #1 I'm sure this has been in the works - I mean, what are they going to do, buy Boeing? |
| Posted by: gromky 2007-11-24 04:03 |