This time, why did China abandon American Boeing aircraft and choose European Airbus instead? What is the meaning behind ?
In fact, Boeing and Airbus are the two major aircraft manufacturers in the world, but the market is only so big, and both are mortal enemies.
The American Boeing Company and aircraft
Because the cost and profit of aircraft are so high, often tens of billions, they have always attracted the attention of governments around the world. European governments and the United States have been torn apart by aircraft orders. Make a deal.
Before, China had always bought Boeing aircraft, such as Boeing 737 and other models. But the era of importing large quantities of Boeing aircraft has passed.
Why did China purchase 292 European passenger aircraft?
html On July 1, China's three major civil aviation state-owned enterprises jointly announced that would purchase 292 Airbus A320NEO passenger aircraft, totaling 372 U.S. dollars, which is approximately equivalent to 240 billion yuan.
China purchased 292 European Airbus aircraft
This is the largest order with the highest amount in the history of the three major airlines.
Moreover, China’s market of 1.4 billion people is very huge. If we choose Airbus, it means that Boeing aircraft will lose trillions of dollars in the Chinese market in the next ten or even decades.
So, this is not just an economic issue, it is a political issue. Because Airbus company is jointly founded by Germany, France, Spain and the United Kingdom.
Europe Airbus
Now that it comes to politics, some people ask, why do we buy European aircraft? Didn’t NATO just release a report labeling China as a “challenger to NATO and the European order”?
There are several main reasons for this:
First, European aircraft are cost-effective, fuel-efficient, and have good performance
To be honest, China still has no way to compete with Boeing, Airbus and other companies in the manufacturing of high-end passenger aircraft, so , in the past, all Chinese aircraft were purchased from the United States.
The current stage is when the epidemic is coming to an end and the aviation industry has just recovered. At this time, it is more cost-effective to buy an airplane and the price is relatively low. Moreover, the aircraft delivery time is from 2024 to 2027, and there will be a long acceptance and delivery cycle to complete.
The Airbus A320NEO aircraft purchased by China for the first time
In addition, compared with existing aircraft, Airbus A320NEO can reduce fuel consumption by 20%, which is something that even Boeing cannot catch up with.
Second, the United States continues to impose sanctions on China, but there is no strategic conflict between China and Europe
The current international situation is mainly divided into four parties. Among them, Europe, the United States and Russia are opponents. So the two joined forces to continuously put pressure on Putin and Russia.
As for China, we have an ally relationship with Russia, an economic and trade cooperation relationship with Europe, and a cooperation + confrontation relationship with the United States.
China-EU leaders meeting
So it is obvious that the relationship between China and the United States is deteriorating, because the United States continues to unilaterally sanction us, and even instigates its European allies to launch sanctions against us, such as the previous Huawei 5G incident. The Americans are behind this.
A careful analysis can reveal that European countries actually accepted the 5G technology of Huawei products at the beginning. The reason why they sanctioned Huawei was also due to political pressure from the United States.
Huawei has still received a lot of 5G orders from Europe.
Therefore, Europe actually has no hostile relationship with China. Since the EU is a community of multiple countries and does not have the strength and ambition to seek world hegemony , China and Europe essentially have no strategic contradictions and will not become rivals.
Therefore, one is our rival Boeing of the United States, and the other is our economic and trade partner with no strategic contradiction. We naturally choose Airbus of Europe.
Third, divide Europe and warn the United States.
There are many countries in Europe. Some of them are pro-China and believe that they should cooperate with China for win-win results. Some countries like to cling to the lap of the United States.
In the NATO declaration, China is positioned as a "challenge to the relationship"
However, under the coercion and inducement of the United States, Europe, that is, the NATO countries did pass the so-called declaration, positioning China as a "systemic challenge" to the relationship.
Then we put out a big order at this time, which means to differentiate and beat Europe.
First of all, China has the right to choose its customers. The United States has a close relationship with us, so we will choose the United States. If Europe is more friendly to us, we will choose Europe.
This time we bought a European aircraft. Boeing in the United States should probably lobby the US government to "beat" Europe. Europe, which has taken advantage, will naturally be more friendly to China because of economic interests.
Air crashes occur frequently, and China has grounded the Boeing 737 MAX
After all, it is a capitalist country , and making money is more important than anything else.
As for the United States, choosing Europe is also our "asymmetric sanctions" against the United States. After all, if you don’t buy your Boeing aircraft, it will be equivalent to a loss of hundreds of billions of yuan for the United States. plus some additional orders, is likely to cause a trillion-level GPD loss to the United States. This will have a negative impact on the economic development of the United States. And the recovery is quite unfavorable.
Losing orders will make the U.S. economy even worse.
Therefore, don’t look at China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs often “protests” without counterattack. When we buy European aircraft, it is an “asymmetric sanction” against the high-end manufacturing industry in the United States.
This is China’s method. It sanctions you and leaves you with no reason or excuse. Just ask you if you are afraid.
The deep meaning behind Chinese orders
Judging from the current situation, the attitude of the major EU countries towards China is relatively friendly, because China has relatively good economic and trade relations with these major countries, Germany, France and other countries have a relatively stable attitude towards us.
But some effects, such as Lithuania and so on, are not afraid of China's "trade retaliation" because their economic and trade relations with China are not so close. Therefore, they like to provoke us in various ways and interfere in China's internal affairs. This is what we need to be wary of.
The small European country Lithuania interferes in China's internal affairs
Of course, there are still some big countries that have a say in the EU, so our order is actually to win over these countries and divide the relationship between them and the United States.
Not only that, this large order from China and Europe is actually just the beginning.
First of all, in the next few decades, Chinese passenger aircraft will not only have orders of 37 billion US dollars, but also orders and markets of hundreds of billions or even trillions of dollars. This is a huge piece of fat for Europe and the United States.
China-Europe freight trains have brought huge benefits to Europe
If Europe still bites this piece of fat, it must maintain its policy opposition and no longer blindly follow the United States.
Secondly, if the relationship between China and Europe becomes closer, the possibility of conflicts between the two sides will be smaller, and it will be less easy for the United States to drive Europe to impose sanctions on us.
After all, the sanctions against Russia, which are only equivalent to the GDP of China's Guangdong Province, have had such serious and disastrous consequences for the European economy. If sanctions are imposed on China, will fall out with China? This is unacceptable to all European countries.
Sanctions on Russia deal a catastrophic energy blow to Europe. Let alone China.
In addition, there are no geographical contradictions or conflicts between China and Europe, and the old accounts in history have basically been settled. Therefore, Europe has no reason to fall out with China, its largest trading partner.
In one sentence, when we reach out to Europe, suppress the United States, and allow the United States to impose sanctions on China, we can only go it alone, instead of creating a " United Nations Army " like the Korean War . This is our purpose.
Of course, the international situation is complex, and European countries cannot be bought off with just one order. Our competition with Europe and the United States has just begun. However, just looking at this lost aircraft order, the United States may go crazy.
I hope C919 will be mass-produced and installed as soon as possible. Then localize the engine!
Finally, I still hope that China’s domestically produced large aircraft, C919, will be mass-produced as soon as possible, and then the engine will be nationalized. After all, no matter how good the European Airbus aircraft is, it is not as good as China’s own domestically produced aircraft!
China’s aviation industry needs to work harder!
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