People love dismissing Chinese manufacturing and innovation. That actually works to China's Art of War advantage - Appear weak when you are strong. Thank you for yet another great take, Kevin.
I've to admit when I first saw C919, I was apprehensive. If China can do EV, there is no stopping Comac from achieving the same. And if Qatar or SIA is in the queue, will it be the same euphoria when SIA ordered the first A380?
@@michaele4830 Let's not forget it is now public knowledge there is a backdoor in Boeing, when the aircraft could be remotely controlled, the perfect solution to political assassination. If US can weaponized "pager", no one should ever trust anything coming out of USA
@feargal2433 the whole world loves the irish. They can go anywhere anytime. And if they come to my house, they will a hot tea and cake. Lovely people ❤love from somalia 🇸🇴
My neighbour has a Dongfend Evo T5 small SUV - €28k, 4cyl 200bhp, 7sp auto, 48mpg, fill leather electric seats, 4 zone climate, the BEST paint job I have seen on a new car for 40 years, looks like a mini Lambo SUV. Incredibly build quality. I ahve not driven it but for €28 it is ASTONISHING
Chinese can build everything as well as them building automobiles now, it just depends on how much someone is willing to pay. You can still now as a foreign company ordering Chinese factories to build up a car at lowest cost as possible, they will tell you, if so, quality wise won't be good, but you can get your car by that eventually, just like how Walmart has been doing for the last few decades, buying a $20 drone from China and sell it at a $500 price in the US, if not $1000. There is an example for you, recently a manufacturer in China posted a story online, that some Indonesians few months ago came and ordered some $0.08 worth lighters, the manufacturer told them these lighters can only be used for few times at this cost, but the Indonesians said those would only be used as souvenir and not for sales, yet the fact was, as soon as they received the lighters, they sold them for about $1. You could imagine people in Indonesia who buy those, would be furious and shout out that Chinese made lighters are craps.
US and France knows their planes are crap like their cars. Expect more tariffs. China still orders boeing and airbus- i'm sure they will stop once tariffs are in place.
Lots of comment here said China has no oem jet engines for C918 or C929. In fact China already has C1000 engines for C919 and soon C2000 engines for C929. China now produces own jet engines for all her military aircrafts.
Yeah, China has been switching from Russian engines to Chinese engines over the past decade. China has been test-flying the CJ-1000 engine on the Y-20 military transport, so it'll go into service on the C919 soon enough. With the high thrust CJ-2000 engine coming, I wonder if China is going to produce an even larger military cargo jet comparable to the C-5 Galaxy.
@@ZweiZwolfChina has not need for something as big as the C5 because it does not have distant bases which need huge deliveries. The Y-20 is adequate for the time being.
@@_Tony.Montana We can be pretty sure China won't cut corners when trying to get into this highly sensitive business! Especially now when they have Boeing as an example of what not to do. I would bet that Comac will be as safe as they can make them. It should be a part of their strategy.
They know exactly what they’re doing and if all companies working together with them are sanctioned then they move production elsewhere to get around it. The west can’t use blackmail anymore because it doesn’t work
People still can’t get the new reality. China learns. I always tell the story of Olympic Diving, a discipline in which the US dominated since 1904. The Chinese began developing their diving program in the early seventies. First generation kind of sucked. Next was a bit better. By 1984, Chinese divers were already in finals and podium. Seoul 1988 was the last Olympic Games dominated by the US in diving. Fast forward to 2024, China has taken 55 out of 60 Olympic gold medals from 1992 to 2024. We’ve seen the same pattern of development in fields like smartphones and electronics, ship building, photovoltaic energy and it will also replicate in every single field they determine as strategic: EVs (smart vehicles), semiconductors, chips, nano-lithography, space exploration, aeronautics, robotics, AI, etc. Do never underestimate China and its people.
China's population is almost 1.5 Billion. China's population is generally rational and overall coherently synergetic. China values poverty alleviation and practical education. China still has a lot of space for development. There are still a lot of opportunities for China to extend overshadowing of the West. It's pretty much barely started. I think the best approach for the West is to integrate into the developing world and concentrate on synergy rather than to try to hang on to the past glory of zero-sum world domination and international looting.
How can superior people integrate with people they consider inferior? That will need a whole mindset change to accept everyone in the world don't aspire to be them.
EXACTLY THIS!!!! The China the West are currently fearing! HASNT! Even begun to FLEX!!! THIS IS YEAR 1 for Chinese EVs Chinese Aerospace! For context it took Xiaomi 3 yrs from concept to market for their car! Apple took 10+ yrs in RnD for their top secret Apple car! And canned it because Apple couldnt make it a feasible product! Plenty of other "China Speeeed" datapoints! contexts that shows China's speed of advancement and progress! Shenzhen didnt exist 40 yrs ago! HSR was 0 10 yrs ago in China! And on and on..... Wait until China gets HK, Macau, Taiwan ALL under a cohesive economic infrastructure, with each place linked by HSR and specialising in a specific industry... ALL of China, Asia will prosperous! People not seeing the long game China has planned! And we're only talking China!!!? Think about BRICS and the infrastructure and HSR China has already completed with neighbouring as well as Lat Am and African countries! The West is still trying to figure out what the F!!! is going on and what side to be on FFS!!!!
Chinas population is estimated to have declined to 970 million here in 2024. Nobody ever thought it was 1.5 billion. Its on track to be 600 million by 2050. But yes, they spent massive amounts of the nations wealth subsidizing airplane production and by spending massive more money the Chinese govt can push it from currently being considered 'no competition at all' to counting as a 'competition' out there. Until then they arent even deemed as such and there probably is some niche for cheap subsidized Chinese aircraft in the world. India or the rising SE Asian powers
Hate to say this because I don't mean to insult the host of this channel (and this comment certainly does not apply to Kevin), but Westerners cannot be trusted to take part in what is radically happening in the developing world, by which I mean the BRI. The reason there are so many attacks on China is because Westerners cannot accept the East or Global South surpassing them in quality of life, and will do what they can to sabotage them, as the US and Europe are attempting with the tariffs. The only reason they tolerate Japan and South Korea is because they willingly serve as military vassals to the US.
The airline sector is begging for COMAC to produce more of all types. Aside from the 929 and talk of the 939, there is already talk about a 949. So if COMAC can turn these dreams into reality, the Chinese have another winning sector. They already dominate ship building, infrastructure, high speed rail, fintech, and starting to rise in semiconductors and biotech. Soon China will dominate space, nuclear power, and quantum applications.
I hope comac only sell planes they already have, instead of taking huge orders. Build the planes at their own pace instead of taking huge orders and rushing it . Quality over quantity.
Although it could be argued that it's "Political Ideology" which has left certain countries in trouble while an alternative Ideology has proven to be more "effective" (Some would say "superior")? Maybe "We" need to reevaluate priorities and aim for "sufficient" rather than MORE and benevolence over domination?
@elliekwong3180 I heard his space capsule crushed on landing . Maybe those 2 should wait a bit longer till EM figure out how to land it safely. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Boeing management is doing an extremely good job at what they are paid to do - to cut costs and enrich shareholders. Boeing is a finance company that happens to build aircraft on the side.
#5 is subcontracting to INDIA! That needs to stop ASAP. Look at IPhone 15’s 50% failure rate from India plus E. Coli 🙄Not to mention our 2 astronauts got stuck in space bc of INDIA AGAIN!
@@andrewlau9873 "The Italian company that sold the titanium to the Turkish company reported that they purchased the titanium from Turkey and India because of its low cost. However, the batch from India was actually aluminum alloy." - quoted parts were copy pasted from article. Just do a quick search to verify.
@@sleo3720 India. Apparently, Indian suppliers substituted lower grade materials and falsified the records that would be required for use on commercial aircraft.
And this is what happens when all profits are used for stock buybacks and dividend payouts, instead of re-investing it to improve the production capacities 🤷🏻♀️
These commentaries by Kevin are both hugely informative and wonderfully presented. One learns so much from his objective and terrifically well researched presentations. One hopes that many people (perhaps especially in America) pay close attention to this world-class.reporter. A shining star on RUclips!!!
Also, titanium got cut out of the process with sanctions on Russian Titanium Alloys. Which makes me think if it really is they could not find significant replacements...During this they been buying different alloys with weaker strength and quality for cheaper in other countries... they just dont care.
A very good transition, from Boing & Airbus-> Comac. Both from a business & passenger perspective. Delivering multiple advantages, in that let us not forget the political aspect. Both airlines & their countries can be sanctioned. Fatal for business & security. Boing & Airbus might be the first option for the countries in the Western Hegemony. Countries in the rest of the World will more and more rethink. Let us embrace this. Thanks for sharing!
And watch Modi and India slide into this space once they get the likes of Tata, Reliance and host of BJP friendly companies copy Comac and take over the industry
For Boeing. Trouble started when named an Indian as CEO in 2016. He outsourced lots of design and parts from India. Got caught with pants down cheating in materials. Boeing ask for it. 😂
Actually, their problems started earlier when they merged with McDonnell Douglas in 1997. Then they moved their HQs from Seattle to Chicago in 2001, and began to replace engineers in management with bean counters -- in order to pump up profits. But yes Boeing continued to go downhill from there.
@randygraham926 I don't know about Boeing issue, but about replacing engineers management with bean counters, totally agree with you. Being an employee once in O&G, my ex-company was merged with GE, started seeing experienced engineers being sideline and replaced with people who lacked technical knowledge but were good with charts and statistics. Things went downhill after that😢
Stop poo pooing the Indian angle commentators. You obviously are not aware of how they operate as an ingroup once transplanted. They are also programmed with finance capitalism ideology and have money sickness. Chinese are materialistic, too, but they have a national socialist government that forces good behavior. There is no magic US soil. Some immigrants retain their characteristics.
That's what many in "The West" seemingly failed to consider (and still do?) With an expanding domestic market AND a huge market in the Global Majority (AKA "Global South") if a "Western Country".... Even a "Western Power" tries to dominate China, China can if they wish simply say "no problem" and NOT sell to them, BUT decimate their market elsewhere while "Taking up the slack" at home. China will still sell all they can make.
If your business depends on planes you get planes where they are available . Western companies need to compete at the next level or keep falling behind. Politicians keep bashing China for votes, but China keeps gaining. Thank you Mr. Nixon for opening the door and letting China in.
Question sir: Do you have a team that collects and processes all the information for you or do you work alone because it is really impressive this quantity, diversity and accuracy of the information that you produce almost every week if not less on China and the world. Total respect coming from Cameroon-Africa
didnt even know India had the industry to do these parts! this all correlates to Apple moving back to China! Its good context to know where the closest competitiors are and how able they are....... evidence is that theyre not very able and not even close! If India is the closest alternative to China LOL
Just today, I read somewhere that Boeing has announced 2500 employees will be made redundant! With the emergence of COMAC, both Boeing and Airbus share of the market will certainly be affected and profit margin greatly reduced, bad news for their employee and shareholders indeed!
In 1980’s I was a member of Lockheed’s test flight team We helped China lay the foundations to build commercial aircraft On our advice they reorganized the Ministry of Aviation to copy our U.S. system In the U.S. the FAA is the regulator but the FAA is not the manufacturer. You can’t regulate yourself. In those days the Ministry of Aviation was both the regulator and the factory owner
That’s true. It happened in most industries in China so China translated American industry standards to be their national industry standards back in 1980s and removed those industry ministries to be national companies. That was like an industry revolution. China respects American as teachers.
@@patrolmanracvyeah bit we talking about the system. China loves to learn and they admit and pay well to learn. Just look at every university in the west.
COMAC will have the vertical supply chain system ironed out, as do all other Chinese Manufacturers. If they match Boeing / Airbus on quality, the cost will be lower. If they choose to match on price, the quality of the end product will be higher. I must say that "signing out" on an image from Chengdu, Sichuan Province is highly "appropriate", since this is the home of Chengdu Aerospace Corporation, who are very heavily involved with China's latest military aircraft such as the J35.
Currently, besides Boeing and Airbus, there are also Embraer from Brazil (who recently won the contract for the renewed fleet of Mexicana, the oldest airline in North America) and Russia's UAC whose MC-21 model has completed its testing phase and is said to have just secured a sales of about 300 planes to replace their Boeing and Airbus inventory.
Actually, their problems started earlier when they merged with McDonnell Douglas in 1997. Then they moved their HQ from Seattle to Chicago in 2001, and began to replace engineers in management with bean counters -- in order to pump up profits. But yes Boeing continued to go downhill from there. 🙂
The car part thing is purposeful. Western OEMs are introducing proprietary parts variation with reduced spares and compatibility to accelerate planned obsolescence. Meanwhile, I read that China completely mass-standardized scooters and mopeds so that every engine and part was cross-compatible across all manufacturers.
We hear a lot about China and supply chains! It seems like China think about these things systematically a lot more than others do, or even can do When the US tries to sabotage Comac, and they do, by preventing them getting some critical components, they miss that China already has plans in place for that. The result of doing these things is that China themselves eventually will control all the important supply chains. Not because they want to exclude the Western suppliers, but because they have to!
China believes their economy isn't the largest (in nominal USD terms), that's why they're still going forward to remove Western dependency! In reality, China's economy is deliberately understated by a tremendous amount, almost as much as the US economy is overstated. If both China and the US had their economies measured in the same way, China would be found to have the largest economy and that would be inconvenient for China claiming "developing nation" status for trade advantages. So China continues the fiction of being a smaller economy, and the West is happy with that.
@@ZweiZwolf China have the largest economy and still be a developing nation. There are 1.5 billion people in China, living standards are not yet equal.
@@nameberry220 In many ways, Chinese living standards are superior. Education, healthcare, infrastructure, and cost of living are equal or better than most developed nations.
The parts/engine problems facing Airbus and Boeing are the SAME as veing faced by Comac. The engines in Comac planes are the same, also other parts are coming from the same manufacturers. Building internationally accepted planes means also accepting international parts (engines, interior etc) because no single country can build all these parts themselves.
Reportedly, China & Russia are jointly building a wide body commercial aircraft & don't forget Russia's aircraft industry. The world of industry has fundamentally changed.
After the Ukraine sanctions, Russia had to back out and China go things alone. This was exacerbated by Trump's sanctions on Huawei, forcing China to look at de-risking for the C919.
I led a pilot project for all Divisions of Boeing to track certs for all fasteners 6mm & smaller, honored as employee of the year as a contractor cuz it worked ! It got "financialized" by corporate raiders while there, before they moved headquarters ... End of story, very sad to take the failure out on employees paying inflated costs of living while they're still millionaires running the show. Fwiw
This is all great, but the reality is that even comac is dependent on western suppliers for critical sub-components. And in case anyone hasn't watched the news, there are huge delays in the supply chain, the same delays that will also affect comac if they want to ramp up production.
imagine China and Brazil join hands to develop next gen commercial airliners. Sooner or later this will happen. They can at least share supply chains and make parts universally compatible.
The previous Boeing CEOs and their golden handshakes obviously have no effect on their bottom line nor strengthen confidence in their board of directors and management.
Honestly COMAC has nothing to stress about being a new aircraft manufacturer in the industry it will get there slowly but surely!! I dont foresee Boeing getting over its issues anytime soon for the next millenia, airlines all over the globe are ditching or sagificantly revaluating their options of Boeing models.. And Airbus has already publicly stated that it is excited an looks forward to new competitor manufacturers entering the industry, their even expecting Embraer to take the leap into the market with a sigle isle widebody longhaul product in the not so distant future...
So true. And if the EU, as well as the US, dont stop theire war on the Russ fed, this present situations will lead to "Cooperations" between the Russians and the Chineese avionic companies and gouv parts, and then, in just some years, the leading western comps will be part of this cooperation. So when will they learn, When will they ever learn???
This is why my company don't allow buying replacement parts off of Ebay. Everything has to be purchased directly from companies even though the price could be 4 times more. ... I be good, I be goooooooooood.
I heard why Boeing has so many quality issues. Boeing used to use a lot of titanium from Russia because titanium is light and strong material , but now because sections Boeing can't use it. So,Boeing looks for alternative from international markets. It comes out aluminum alloy from India. India claims its aluminum alloy is aerospace grade strong enough to replace Titanium. It turns out it isn't strong enough for crucial parts of aerospace vehicles.
People love dismissing Chinese manufacturing and innovation. That actually works to China's Art of War advantage - Appear weak when you are strong. Thank you for yet another great take, Kevin.
I've to admit when I first saw C919, I was apprehensive. If China can do EV, there is no stopping Comac from achieving the same. And if Qatar or SIA is in the queue, will it be the same euphoria when SIA ordered the first A380?
@@michaele4830 Let's not forget it is now public knowledge there is a backdoor in Boeing, when the aircraft could be remotely controlled, the perfect solution to political assassination. If US can weaponized "pager", no one should ever trust anything coming out of USA
I learn more in ten minutes with Kevin than anywhere else.
I second that.
Yo también
Seconded .
Very suspicious his subscribers have not grown. But Kevin is irreplaceable for serious information about serious issues.
I agree.
Welcome "The Century of China",salutes from Brazil 👍
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@@feargal2433 Ireland?
The millennium, actually
@feargal2433 the whole world loves the irish. They can go anywhere anytime. And if they come to my house, they will a hot tea and cake. Lovely people ❤love from somalia 🇸🇴
thanks my Brazil friend，but it should be century for our developing nations.😊
IF THE CHINESE AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURERS BUILD AIRPLANES AS WELL AS THEY BUILD AUTOMOBILES, THEN AIRBUS AND BOEING ARE IN TROUBLE!!!
My neighbour has a Dongfend Evo T5 small SUV - €28k, 4cyl 200bhp, 7sp auto, 48mpg, fill leather electric seats, 4 zone climate, the BEST paint job I have seen on a new car for 40 years, looks like a mini Lambo SUV. Incredibly build quality. I ahve not driven it but for €28 it is ASTONISHING
Chinese can build everything as well as them building automobiles now, it just depends on how much someone is willing to pay. You can still now as a foreign company ordering Chinese factories to build up a car at lowest cost as possible, they will tell you, if so, quality wise won't be good, but you can get your car by that eventually, just like how Walmart has been doing for the last few decades, buying a $20 drone from China and sell it at a $500 price in the US, if not $1000.
There is an example for you, recently a manufacturer in China posted a story online, that some Indonesians few months ago came and ordered some $0.08 worth lighters, the manufacturer told them these lighters can only be used for few times at this cost, but the Indonesians said those would only be used as souvenir and not for sales, yet the fact was, as soon as they received the lighters, they sold them for about $1. You could imagine people in Indonesia who buy those, would be furious and shout out that Chinese made lighters are craps.
US and France knows their planes are crap like their cars. Expect more tariffs. China still orders boeing and airbus- i'm sure they will stop once tariffs are in place.
You mean... very bad?😂 sure
@@piccalillipit9211i saw one in the mall in panama for $24K USD we were shocked at the price. Would have cost $50K here in the USA
Lots of comment here said China has no oem jet engines for C918 or C929. In fact China already has C1000 engines for C919 and soon C2000 engines for C929.
China now produces own jet engines for all her military aircrafts.
Yeah, China has been switching from Russian engines to Chinese engines over the past decade. China has been test-flying the CJ-1000 engine on the Y-20 military transport, so it'll go into service on the C919 soon enough. With the high thrust CJ-2000 engine coming, I wonder if China is going to produce an even larger military cargo jet comparable to the C-5 Galaxy.
@@ZweiZwolfChina has not need for something as big as the C5 because it does not have distant bases which need huge deliveries. The Y-20 is adequate for the time being.
@@Zerpentsa6598 China plans ahead, and they might want such a plane for the future
How safe is COMAC ? Boeing is not safe but they said they fix the problem
@@_Tony.Montana
We can be pretty sure China won't cut corners when trying to get into this highly sensitive business!
Especially now when they have Boeing as an example of what not to do.
I would bet that Comac will be as safe as they can make them. It should be a part of their strategy.
I don't think anybody needs to tell the Chinese how to ramp up production in manufacturing planes or anything.
Just like the West telling China how to make Chinese food
Yeah, China will scale up when they're ready.
In a matter of time, Yellen will be yelling at China for manufacturing overcapacity of C919 aeroplanes. 😅
@@davidwoon6402 🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍
They know exactly what they’re doing and if all companies working together with them are sanctioned then they move production elsewhere to get around it. The west can’t use blackmail anymore because it doesn’t work
These videos are good. No music. Consistent good content and good delivery.
And NO politics
And no robot presentation.
People still can’t get the new reality. China learns. I always tell the story of Olympic Diving, a discipline in which the US dominated since 1904. The Chinese began developing their diving program in the early seventies. First generation kind of sucked. Next was a bit better. By 1984, Chinese divers were already in finals and podium. Seoul 1988 was the last Olympic Games dominated by the US in diving. Fast forward to 2024, China has taken 55 out of 60 Olympic gold medals from 1992 to 2024. We’ve seen the same pattern of development in fields like smartphones and electronics, ship building, photovoltaic energy and it will also replicate in every single field they determine as strategic: EVs (smart vehicles), semiconductors, chips, nano-lithography, space exploration, aeronautics, robotics, AI, etc. Do never underestimate China and its people.
Great analysis.
It must doping😂
Doping by losers@@brudamo9203
Sounds like you're coping...
China's population is almost 1.5 Billion. China's population is generally rational and overall coherently synergetic. China values poverty alleviation and practical education. China still has a lot of space for development. There are still a lot of opportunities for China to extend overshadowing of the West. It's pretty much barely started. I think the best approach for the West is to integrate into the developing world and concentrate on synergy rather than to try to hang on to the past glory of zero-sum world domination and international looting.
How can superior people integrate with people they consider inferior? That will need a whole mindset change to accept everyone in the world don't aspire to be them.
You’re right ! Cooperating means win win for everyone 👍🏼
EXACTLY THIS!!!! The China the West are currently fearing! HASNT! Even begun to FLEX!!! THIS IS YEAR 1 for Chinese EVs Chinese Aerospace!
For context it took Xiaomi 3 yrs from concept to market for their car!
Apple took 10+ yrs in RnD for their top secret Apple car! And canned it because Apple couldnt make it a feasible product!
Plenty of other "China Speeeed" datapoints! contexts that shows China's speed of advancement and progress! Shenzhen didnt exist 40 yrs ago! HSR was 0 10 yrs ago in China! And on and on.....
Wait until China gets HK, Macau, Taiwan ALL under a cohesive economic infrastructure, with each place linked by HSR and specialising in a specific industry... ALL of China, Asia will prosperous! People not seeing the long game China has planned! And we're only talking China!!!? Think about BRICS and the infrastructure and HSR China has already completed with neighbouring as well as Lat Am and African countries!
The West is still trying to figure out what the F!!! is going on and what side to be on FFS!!!!
Chinas population is estimated to have declined to 970 million here in 2024.
Nobody ever thought it was 1.5 billion.
Its on track to be 600 million by 2050.
But yes, they spent massive amounts of the nations wealth subsidizing airplane production and by spending massive more money the Chinese govt can push it from currently being considered 'no competition at all' to counting as a 'competition' out there. Until then they arent even deemed as such and there probably is some niche for cheap subsidized Chinese aircraft in the world. India or the rising SE Asian powers
Hate to say this because I don't mean to insult the host of this channel (and this comment certainly does not apply to Kevin), but Westerners cannot be trusted to take part in what is radically happening in the developing world, by which I mean the BRI. The reason there are so many attacks on China is because Westerners cannot accept the East or Global South surpassing them in quality of life, and will do what they can to sabotage them, as the US and Europe are attempting with the tariffs. The only reason they tolerate Japan and South Korea is because they willingly serve as military vassals to the US.
The airline sector is begging for COMAC to produce more of all types. Aside from the 929 and talk of the 939, there is already talk about a 949. So if COMAC can turn these dreams into reality, the Chinese have another winning sector. They already dominate ship building, infrastructure, high speed rail, fintech, and starting to rise in semiconductors and biotech. Soon China will dominate space, nuclear power, and quantum applications.
There will be no 949, they will skip a model to 959 ;-)
I hope comac only sell planes they already have, instead of taking huge orders.
Build the planes at their own pace instead of taking huge orders and rushing it .
Quality over quantity.
yup ;)@@apr888
China already dominates quantum computing.
@@davidlazarus67 and nuclear power.
Thank you, Kevin, for calm & rational "reporting". Political ideology does not solve issues or problems. Cheers
Although it could be argued that it's "Political Ideology" which has left certain countries in trouble while an alternative Ideology has proven to be more "effective" (Some would say "superior")?
Maybe "We" need to reevaluate priorities and aim for "sufficient" rather than MORE and benevolence over domination?
I don't know if your first language is English or not, but using quotes insinuates that you don't believe it's actually reporting.
Well Said 👍👍👍
Boeing is laying off all the whistle blowers who are reporting safety concerns. Are the two astronauts still stuck in space
I heard next Feb. They are waiting for Elon come to rescue them.
no, Russian s brought them down already! resd Russian news
@elliekwong3180 I heard his space capsule crushed on landing . Maybe those 2 should wait a bit longer till EM figure out how to land it safely. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
19 hours ago. CNN-News18 reported
"Elon Musk's SpaceX Launches Mission to Rescue Astronauts....."
I saw the ladys picture, and it was heartbreaking... Pls bring her back asap whatever it cost
Boeing has four huge problems 1) quality -- build system problem 2) shortage of skill labor 3) outdated management 4) part supply chain
5) And theyre unwilling to admit to any of the previous 4 points and theyre unwilling to change!
And a culture among INVESTORS or Short term but continuous profit over quality.
No. Boeing has 2 problems:
1. Quality
2. Everything else
There, fixed it for yah.
Boeing management is doing an extremely good job at what they are paid to do - to cut costs and enrich shareholders. Boeing is a finance company that happens to build aircraft on the side.
#5 is subcontracting to INDIA! That needs to stop ASAP. Look at IPhone 15’s 50% failure rate from India plus E. Coli 🙄Not to mention our 2 astronauts got stuck in space bc of INDIA AGAIN!
Fake parts were made in India. The Indian made 'titanium alloys' were actually aluminum alloys 😂
I tot they make it from used oil drums and scraps from ships graveyards. India no 1
That's called democracy price payed for decoupling from China 😂😂😂
And the dump US engineers from MIT and such didn't notice , right 🙄?
Do you have any evidence that the fake parts were made in India? It is a UK company according to the video.
@@andrewlau9873 "The Italian company that sold the titanium to the Turkish company reported that they purchased the titanium from Turkey and India because of its low cost. However, the batch from India was actually aluminum alloy." - quoted parts were copy pasted from article. Just do a quick search to verify.
Knowing how much testing is done on real aircraft parts with paper trails, fake parts are scary.
That has been part and parcel of Boeing's cost cutting strategy.
This would have been avoided with more Boeing testing, wouldnt it? Test the part when it arrives
@@socialistcynic Supposedly, Boeing's suppliers were testing.
Where are these fake parts made? Who dreams up these criminal projects
@@sleo3720 India. Apparently, Indian suppliers substituted lower grade materials and falsified the records that would be required for use on commercial aircraft.
Straight to the point as always, Kevin.
Excellent content with no frills, tucks , pins and bows.
Go China go!!!!!!!
And this is what happens when all profits are used for stock buybacks and dividend payouts, instead of re-investing it to improve the production capacities 🤷🏻♀️
THANKYOU Kevin.
Blessings from Australia....❤
These commentaries by Kevin are both hugely informative and wonderfully presented. One learns so much from his objective and terrifically well researched presentations. One hopes that many people (perhaps especially in America) pay close attention to this world-class.reporter. A shining star on RUclips!!!
Also, titanium got cut out of the process with sanctions on Russian Titanium Alloys. Which makes me think if it really is they could not find significant replacements...During this they been buying different alloys with weaker strength and quality for cheaper in other countries... they just dont care.
"World's ugliest chart.." - This made my day...🤪
It actually looks pretty and artistic, but it's not user friendly. So, what is the point of putting it out there if people got turned off by it?
😂
I liked that too 😊
Great, informative and analytical.
Bravo!
A very good transition, from Boing & Airbus-> Comac. Both from a business & passenger perspective. Delivering multiple advantages, in that let us not forget the political aspect. Both airlines & their countries can be sanctioned. Fatal for business & security.
Boing & Airbus might be the first option for the countries in the Western Hegemony. Countries in the rest of the World will more and more rethink.
Let us embrace this.
Thanks for sharing!
And watch Modi and India slide into this space once they get the likes of Tata, Reliance and host of BJP friendly companies copy Comac and take over the industry
Good content
Booing builds plane using spreadsheets instead of engineers. And the world wonder why Booing is crashing?
For Boeing. Trouble started when named an Indian as CEO in 2016. He outsourced lots of design and parts from India. Got caught with pants down cheating in materials. Boeing ask for it. 😂
Actually, their problems started earlier when they merged with McDonnell Douglas in 1997. Then they moved their HQs from Seattle to Chicago in 2001, and began to replace engineers in management with bean counters -- in order to pump up profits. But yes Boeing continued to go downhill from there.
@randygraham926 I don't know about Boeing issue, but about replacing engineers management with bean counters, totally agree with you. Being an employee once in O&G, my ex-company was merged with GE, started seeing experienced engineers being sideline and replaced with people who lacked technical knowledge but were good with charts and statistics. Things went downhill after that😢
When Chinese diaspora miserably failed in western world, this is the obsession one gets.
Stop poo pooing the Indian angle commentators. You obviously are not aware of how they operate as an ingroup once transplanted. They are also programmed with finance capitalism ideology and have money sickness. Chinese are materialistic, too, but they have a national socialist government that forces good behavior. There is no magic US soil. Some immigrants retain their characteristics.
What obsession? What has this got to do with the diaspora?
China's domestic market alone is enough to make it more than feasible. Moreover, orders from overseas had already come in.
That's what many in "The West" seemingly failed to consider (and still do?)
With an expanding domestic market AND a huge market in the Global Majority (AKA "Global South") if a "Western Country".... Even a "Western Power" tries to dominate China, China can if they wish simply say "no problem" and NOT sell to them, BUT decimate their market elsewhere while "Taking up the slack" at home.
China will still sell all they can make.
According to asian aviation press, Comac is already looking for manufacturing partners in multiple asia countries to increase production.
If your business depends on planes you get planes where they are available . Western companies need to compete at the next level or keep falling behind. Politicians keep bashing China for votes, but China keeps gaining. Thank you Mr. Nixon for opening the door and letting China in.
Please keep up the good work, Kevin. We much appreciate the solid and concise info and data in your vids. A rarity these days.
I have read that the Russians are building passenger planes which would compete with Boeing and Airbus.
Question sir:
Do you have a team that collects and processes all the information for you or do you work alone because it is really impressive this quantity, diversity and accuracy of the information that you produce almost every week if not less on China and the world. Total respect coming from Cameroon-Africa
Comac is the next BYD.
Boeing and Airbus uses "made in little-India parts".
didnt even know India had the industry to do these parts! this all correlates to Apple moving back to China! Its good context to know where the closest competitiors are and how able they are....... evidence is that theyre not very able and not even close! If India is the closest alternative to China LOL
India is very good at hand-made pots and pans. So Boeing's parts are carefully hand-made, too. Skills! 😊
Indians said they could make the parts at a lower price. They just cut a few corners on the spec when the inspectors blinked.
Just today, I read somewhere that Boeing has announced 2500 employees will be made redundant! With the emergence of COMAC, both Boeing and Airbus share of the market will certainly be affected and profit margin greatly reduced, bad news for their employee and shareholders indeed!
US gov't owns shares in Boeing and French gov't owns shares in Airbus. . . just saying!
@@elliekwong3180 oh that's state owned enterprise
@@elliekwong3180isn't that unfair trade practices and is actually subsidies? According to Von D Lion, EU president?
1:30 Boeing/GE 550 engineers????
BYD have more than 10,000 engineers!!
USA's F-35 Lightning II has 6,000+ "designers"!
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Boeing not enough engineers, most west interested in entertainment...😢
In 1980’s I was a member of Lockheed’s test flight team
We helped China lay the foundations to build commercial aircraft
On our advice they reorganized the Ministry of Aviation to copy our U.S. system
In the U.S. the FAA is the regulator but the FAA is not the manufacturer. You can’t regulate yourself. In those days the Ministry of Aviation was both the regulator and the factory owner
That’s true. It happened in most industries in China so China translated American industry standards to be their national industry standards back in 1980s and removed those industry ministries to be national companies. That was like an industry revolution. China respects American as teachers.
in actual fact it was a Chinese aeronautical engineer that started Boeing at the request of the US government because the US couldn't do it ..
@@patrolmanracvyeah bit we talking about the system. China loves to learn and they admit and pay well to learn. Just look at every university in the west.
@@remix-yy1hsSadly they are now not allowed to study stem subjects, only humanities and basket weaving or printing t shirts etc
2 whistle blowers end up shot..,one on the day before he was due to give evidence in court
poor fellows😢😢
Thanks for your hard work Kevin
COMAC will have the vertical supply chain system ironed out, as do all other Chinese Manufacturers. If they match Boeing / Airbus on quality, the cost will be lower. If they choose to match on price, the quality of the end product will be higher. I must say that "signing out" on an image from Chengdu, Sichuan Province is highly "appropriate", since this is the home of Chengdu Aerospace Corporation, who are very heavily involved with China's latest military aircraft such as the J35.
Good morning Kevin and thank you for keeping us up to date.
Currently, besides Boeing and Airbus, there are also Embraer from Brazil (who recently won the contract for the renewed fleet of Mexicana, the oldest airline in North America) and Russia's UAC whose MC-21 model has completed its testing phase and is said to have just secured a sales of about 300 planes to replace their Boeing and Airbus inventory.
Thank you
Kevin ，your numbers are mazing
thanks for your talk
Indian parts Indian employees. That’s the cause of majority of Boeing’s problems
If that's true, solutions seems easier.
@@abhaykumar619 No, its a false simplification to bash Indians. The solution is not easy because it's greed that started the downfall 25 years ago.
Actually, their problems started earlier when they merged with McDonnell Douglas in 1997. Then they moved their HQ from Seattle to Chicago in 2001, and began to replace engineers in management with bean counters -- in order to pump up profits. But yes Boeing continued to go downhill from there. 🙂
Racism is your problem
@@abhaykumar619boeing should manufacture their own parts
I am sure China's commercial aircraft will be #1 by 2035.
Thanks Kevin, for the information, very much appreciated. 😊
Boeing made the rocket and had massive leaking issues, which stranded two astronauts on the ISS
poor astronauts😢😢
Solid reporting 👌 Be Good 😇
Quality content❤
Regarding the claim about European airlines flight restrictions over Russia, the Europeans themselves decided not to fly over Russia, and not Russia.
Informative.
The football match behind Kevin is quiet Interested. ;) Can't have to watch it through all the video . The bright blue one must win at the end.
Likewise with car and motorcycle parts. Makes you wonder if it is purposeful, or just simple corruption.
The car part thing is purposeful. Western OEMs are introducing proprietary parts variation with reduced spares and compatibility to accelerate planned obsolescence. Meanwhile, I read that China completely mass-standardized scooters and mopeds so that every engine and part was cross-compatible across all manufacturers.
Very informative and concise ! Thanks a lot
We hear a lot about China and supply chains!
It seems like China think about these things systematically a lot more than others do, or even can do
When the US tries to sabotage Comac, and they do, by preventing them getting some critical components, they miss that China already has plans in place for that. The result of doing these things is that China themselves eventually will control all the important supply chains.
Not because they want to exclude the Western suppliers, but because they have to!
Insightful comments!
Love the unbiased analysis
Nice Cat beanie😍. Looks cold there! Always look forward to your insightful posts.
Never stop making these!
well never stop watching these then!
Cheers from Brazil...Fakin' it is dishonest & dangerous 😢
Western tech is dangerous remember the mossad pages. Never forget that brother. And solar panels that exploded in Lebanon
Does anyone still believe that China’s economy isn’t the largest and they aren’t going to stop. Appreciate your videos, very informative.
China believes their economy isn't the largest (in nominal USD terms), that's why they're still going forward to remove Western dependency! In reality, China's economy is deliberately understated by a tremendous amount, almost as much as the US economy is overstated. If both China and the US had their economies measured in the same way, China would be found to have the largest economy and that would be inconvenient for China claiming "developing nation" status for trade advantages. So China continues the fiction of being a smaller economy, and the West is happy with that.
@@ZweiZwolf China have the largest economy and still be a developing nation. There are 1.5 billion people in China, living standards are not yet equal.
@@nameberry220 In many ways, Chinese living standards are superior. Education, healthcare, infrastructure, and cost of living are equal or better than most developed nations.
They all used to scoff at and belittled China's planes.......they're not now. 😂
The parts/engine problems facing Airbus and Boeing are the SAME as veing faced by Comac. The engines in Comac planes are the same, also other parts are coming from the same manufacturers. Building internationally accepted planes means also accepting international parts (engines, interior etc) because no single country can build all these parts themselves.
China is getting that sorted😊
"In the world's ugliest chart here from Bloomberg" 🤣🤣🤣
I don’t see what the problem is, more competition is good. This duopoly is bad for the induatry
Fantastic stuff, love your videos. Great insights @Inside China Business👏
American competitive weapons- withholding FAA approval, tariffs and bad mouthing COMAC
It's OK. The world is big enough to exclude the US market.
yes but how many black trans womxn does COMAC have in managerial positions!?
Zero. Hence their success.
Your stupidity about hiring practices shows why you will be subservient to China.
@@fastflame200 No white dudes either, think that has more of an impact.
How about those executive bonuses!
May my Lord keep you and bless you ! Thank you for your work.
Seems like the problem of acceptance and cooperation between the global west and global south are always the issue. When will the west learn?
Reportedly, China & Russia are jointly building a wide body commercial aircraft & don't forget Russia's aircraft industry. The world of industry has fundamentally changed.
After the Ukraine sanctions, Russia had to back out and China go things alone. This was exacerbated by Trump's sanctions on Huawei, forcing China to look at de-risking for the C919.
I led a pilot project for all Divisions of Boeing to track certs for all fasteners 6mm & smaller, honored as employee of the year as a contractor cuz it worked !
It got "financialized" by corporate raiders while there, before they moved headquarters ...
End of story, very sad to take the failure out on employees paying inflated costs of living while they're still millionaires running the show.
Fwiw
This is all great, but the reality is that even comac is dependent on western suppliers for critical sub-components. And in case anyone hasn't watched the news, there are huge delays in the supply chain, the same delays that will also affect comac if they want to ramp up production.
it takes 2 to tango - some of the people in Boeing are pocketing the higher "fake" margins
Really well done podcast
You're right, Bloomberg (American) makes "ugly charts".
We're behind in technical (STEMS) and artistic fields.
EU says they have NOT even started certification process for COMAC.
so we are talking about atleast 5 years of process.
who cares about EU ?
imagine China and Brazil join hands to develop next gen commercial airliners. Sooner or later this will happen. They can at least share supply chains and make parts universally compatible.
The previous Boeing CEOs and their golden handshakes obviously have no effect on their bottom line nor strengthen confidence in their board of directors and management.
Is their CEO made in India too?
Nice sweatshirt.
China is Wisdom in action…
Extremely worrying about the fake parts but apart from that I am thoroughly amused.
Honestly COMAC has nothing to stress about being a new aircraft manufacturer in the industry it will get there slowly but surely!!
I dont foresee Boeing getting over its issues anytime soon for the next millenia, airlines all over the globe are ditching or sagificantly revaluating their options of Boeing models..
And Airbus has already publicly stated that it is excited an looks forward to new competitor manufacturers entering the industry, their even expecting Embraer to take the leap into the market with a sigle isle widebody longhaul product in the not so distant future...
Very good news, professional ~10 min. NEWS everytime ✨✨✨✨✨
people and the manufacturing world should have greater harmony ... with countries doing what they do best ..
So true.
And if the EU, as well as the US, dont stop theire war on the Russ fed, this present situations will lead to "Cooperations" between the Russians and the Chineese avionic companies and gouv parts, and then, in just some years, the leading western comps will be part of this cooperation.
So when will they learn,
When will they ever learn???
And India wants to make Apple iPhones . No, no , no.
How do I invest in Comac again?
The US is running short of qualified Welders who are required in shipbuilding & aircraft industries ? !
COMAC's ARJ21 is now rebranded as C909.
This is why my company don't allow buying replacement parts off of Ebay. Everything has to be purchased directly from companies even though the price could be 4 times more. ... I be good, I be goooooooooood.
Enlighten me. Which chain supplied Boeing with fake parts?
I heard why Boeing has so many quality issues. Boeing used to use a lot of titanium from Russia because titanium is light and strong material , but now because sections Boeing can't use it. So,Boeing looks for alternative from international markets. It comes out aluminum alloy from India. India claims its aluminum alloy is aerospace grade strong enough to replace Titanium. It turns out it isn't strong enough for crucial parts of aerospace vehicles.
No evidence of that, is there?
Comac has delivered only 12 of these 919 planes in over 2 years. The company is no match for Airbus or Boing.
For now of course.
commercial jets are really hard and huge investment over decades. it is even harder than any steath fighters.
Prosperity is abound everywhere in the world. Glad to hear everyone is having their hands full, Kevin. “Fistful of dollars “ Kevin.
Rise of Comac can make carrier supply chain resilient