Summary

Boeing expects Chinese airlines to require 8,830 new commercial aircraft by 2043. That sounds like an enormous opportunity until the denominator is corrected. China is not starting with aircraft demand and asking which manufacturer should supply it. It is deciding how people should move, assigning dense corridors to electric rail, building domestic aerospace capability and buying foreign aircraft for the portions of the system it cannot yet supply itself.

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