7 1st is a day with special significance. On this day, the three major airlines successively issued announcements that they would purchase 292 A320NEO series aircraft from Airbus . The total list price exceeded US$37 billion, or approximately RMB 240 billion.
This is the first time in the past three years that China’s civil aviation industry has announced such a large-scale passenger aircraft order.
In recent years, due to the impact of the epidemic, the aviation industry has been in recession. This large order made Airbus very excited, and it immediately announced the news of the new order from China on its official website.
European media said this record order was a shot in the arm for Airbus. In 2020, when the epidemic just broke out, Airbus's annual delivery volume had been reduced by one-third. Now Airbus has finally obtained China's of orders.
In the next 20 years, the Chinese market will need 8,000 passenger aircraft with a total value of one trillion US dollars. Currently, there are only two companies in the world that can produce large passenger aircraft, Airbus and Boeing. If Airbus could get a third of that, it would make a lot of money.
Boeing, another major aviation giant, immediately issued a statement expressing its disappointment.
That's the whole news.
Many experts interpreted this incident and said: This is China's attempt to drive a wedge between Europe and the United States and to attack the United States. The United States The European Union showed great unity in the Russia-Ukraine war. In order to prevent the United States and Europe from uniting to deal with China, China used economic interests to win over France, Germany and other EU countries. Give the United States some face and let it weigh the economic costs of containing China. Tell the United States that cooperation can only lead to win-win results. If it is anti-China, there will be no meat or soup.
This is confusing.
Can a mere US$37 billion drive a wedge between Europe and the United States? impossible. Don't even think about it. Last year, the United States snatched an order for Australia's submarine from France, worth $60 billion. Did France fight back against the United States? No. However, in less than half a month, relations between France and the United States were restored. This has long been forgotten now.
The actual situation is that Europe has more hip extensions than we think. Almost every European country has American troops stationed in it. In fact, it has become a colony of the United States, and it must follow the lead of the United States. Most European politicians first consider the interests of the United States, not the interests of European countries, when they do anything. The Russia-Ukraine war did great harm to European interests, but Europe still wanted to support the continuation of the war. This is a good example.
Let alone a passenger aircraft order, no matter how much profit you transfer, Europe will not be able to make its own decisions independently.
Therefore, the idea of driving a wedge between Europe and the United States is simply overthinking. The Chinese understand this simple strategy of using barbarians to control barbarians, killing three warriors with two peaches, and these political veterans in Europe and the United States are of course Yemen clear. Therefore, what Europeans do is that I accept the money, praise you a few times, and then nothing happens.
The old trick of using barbarians to control barbarians has been played by the Qing government and the Republic of China a long time ago. For example, the Qing Dynasty used the power of Germany, Russia, and France to redeem Liaodong through the " Three Kingdoms Intervention" . During the Russo-Japanese War , it also used the power of Japan to drive Russia out of the Northeast. Although it had a little effect, it could not change the overall decline of the country, and it still perished in the end. After the September 18th Incident, Chiang Kai-shek placed his hope in the League of Nations, but was beaten in the face. After the outbreak of the all-out war of resistance against Japan, Chiang Kai-shek hoped to use the Songhu Battle to provoke British and American intervention, but was slapped in the face again.
Generally speaking, using barbarians to control barbarians has an effect, but it is not very effective. The Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China were poor and weak, so they had no choice but to use it. To make iron, you still need to be strong. If your own strength is not strong, it will be useless no matter how well you use your strategy.
It is useless to drive a wedge between the United States and Europe. The EU is too loose and powerless. It is mud and cannot hold up the wall. Rather than expecting Europe to wake up, it would be much more reliable to strengthen its own strength, improve its people's livelihood, and rely on the support of its own people to deal with the United States. .24 trillion yuan is not a small amount of money. It is about 171 yuan distributed to each Chinese. It is useless to buy airplanes for the upper class. It is better to use half of this money to develop the domestic aircraft industry and improve the people's livelihood.
Finally, I must emphasize that this is not to say that aircraft should not be purchased from Airbus, but that there is no need to overestimate the significance of purchasing aircraft, or even to win over Europe and alienate Europe and the United States. Buying Airbus aircraft is only slightly better than buying Boeing aircraft.
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