30,000 Feet EU Council President Charles Michel told the Atlantic Council this week that if Europe and the U.S. do not solve the bilateral fight over aircraft subsidies that China will come in and dominate the market. This could be true either way. China has been backward engineering everything it buys from the west. Europe no doubt needs a solution since Airbus sold more than double the airplanes in global commerce as Boeing in 2019. But airplanes are just one product under threat from the central planning of Beijing. President Biden warned more broadly that without action, China is “going to eat our lunch.” It isn’t just aircraft but lunch itself, the agrifood industry that needs more collaboration and less beggar thy n...
From WPI Consulting
Weighing in on strategic realignment
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