For many years, the American company Boeing has been the dominant player in China's civil aviation. However, recently Boeing 737 has continued to "overturn" on safety issues, with multiple crashes, and Sino-US relations have deteriorated. Against this backdrop, China announced the grounding of the Boeing 737. However, someone has to fill such a big vacancy, so China began to look for alternatives. As the world's largest competitor of Boeing , the European Airbus Company ruthlessly took away Boeing's market in China. It is worth noting that China bought 292 Airbus aircraft in one go, which is also the highest single aircraft order in the history of China Europe . U.S. President Biden has just wielded the stick of containing China at the NATO summit, and the cooperation between China and Europe has broken through history. While the United States became angry, it also began to make unreasonable troubles.
According to reports from Global Network , recently China Eastern Airlines , Air China, China Southern Airlines three major airlines purchased 292 Airbus A320NEO series aircraft from European Airbus, including 100 aircraft from China Eastern Airlines and 64 aircraft from Air China, and its subsidiaries Shenzhen Airlines 32 and China Southern Airlines 96, with a total price of US$37.2 billion, equivalent to 240 billion yuan. This is also the largest single order in the history of the three major airlines. Airbus attaches great importance to this order, saying that the new order "demonstrates the momentum of positive recovery and prosperous prospects of China's aviation market." This cooperation also means that Boeing's dominant position in the Chinese market has been severely damaged.
It is worth mentioning that European Airbus has always been Boeing's main competitor in China. Since the Boeing 737 Max passenger plane experienced two fatal crashes, it has previously proposed a plan to rapidly expand the Boeing 737 Max fleet. China Airlines removed it from its near-term fleet plan in May, and China also announced the grounding of this type of aircraft. This has also attracted great attention from the United States. After the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) signed the order with China and Europe, it sourly compared the Boeing 737 with the Airbus A320 NEO passenger aircraft, saying that the design standards of the two were roughly similar, perhaps in an accusation. China should not abandon Boeing and choose Airbus.
Not only that, the US media also hopes to use the method of smearing Airbus to find excuses for Boeing’s market decline in China, saying that Airbus has deep ties with the Chinese military-industrial complex, which is obviously from a geopolitical perspective. Hyping up normal civil aviation procurement cooperation between China and Europe is an unreasonable idea that is not worth refuting at all.
Objectively speaking, it is normal for the United States to be dissatisfied with the normal civil aviation business between China and Europe. After all, strengthening market cooperation between China and Europe means the shrinking of the U.S. market in China. However, it does not hesitate to politicize and rely on smearing competitors to maintain its position. "Hard talk" may illustrate three concerns the United States has about the current international situation.
First of all, affected by the trade war launched by former US President Trump against China, Boeing's aircraft sales in China have been in decline, but Airbus has achieved great success in China because of its localization strategy. Advantage. The relationship between China and the United States continues to deteriorate. If it continues to develop at this rate, I am afraid that Airbus will replace Boeing's dominant position in China soon. This will make the United States even worse for the United States, which is already suffering from inflation.
Secondly, with China's steady development in recent years, more and more fields have caught up with or even surpassed Western countries. Civil aviation is one of the few areas in which China needs to rely heavily on external imports. Now Europe has shown its willingness to "replace the United States" in this field, which also means that the United States will not be able to rely on market share to "stuck" China in the future, and the White House will have fewer and fewer trump cards to contain China.
Finally, Biden has just recently made "isolating China" an issue at the NATO summit. Although Germany, FranceThe NetherlandsBelgium and other EU countries have expressed opposition, it is not hopeless. At least the Russia-Ukraine conflict will allow the United States to Europe is firmly tied to itself.Today, China and Europe have created the largest single order in the history of the three major aviation companies. The two sides have begun to strengthen cooperation with practical actions, and even want to replace the US market share. This situation is completely contrary to Biden's vision, which also shows that "Europe "More and more out of the control of the United States." It's no wonder that the United States is angry.
