China Plans Commercial Jet, Challenger to Boeing and Airbus

No thanks, I think I'll just walk.

Does it get the big "made in china" sticker on it?

I would not fly on one of those even if they paid me to.

Why are still making the same damn planes? They all have the same shape and design. C'mon.

I predict that these have at least an accident rate of 1,000% higher than any other commercial airliner.

Will they have robotic flight attendents????

Why not give the Chinese a fair chance... they'd have the same safety standards as everyone else. Sure, they've been known to completely fail auto crash tests, but they learn from their mistakes, what the markets demand, and move on. I wouldn't be surprised if in twenty to thirty years we're all flying along in Chinese made airliners and driving Chinese made cars. You can't compete with over a billion people looking for work in an export dependent market vs. a consumer based economy here that's trying to pretend it can also manufacture at low costs and export at the same time.

duffong,

Don't go that far yet, I can see the great conflict in that country before that. Of course, freedom is the #1 priority for all, I guess. When you earn enough, when you understand enough, you definitely want to live in peace.

i think its funny how (as the article states) big western businesses are going to tap into the chinese market and give them technologies in exchange to sell sell and trade with them, no even considering that in 10-20 years those companies they helped supply and evovle will be their major competition and cause the same western companies to loose money and eventually go out of business due to lack of competitve-ness (if thats a word) because china will just have a thousand people work for 5 cents a day and pop out planes left and right for like 2 thousand dollars a day or some retarded low price. pushing our economy further down the crapper. everyone better start learning to speak chinese

The U.S. needs to send the unions over to China. That would cripple their economy.

@ bigdave22, lol, that's a good idea. After we implement the unions in China, they can send the jobs back to the US - right after the corporations crush the unions here.

China = no innovation. The only steal and tweak Western innovation. They did it to the Japanese with hybrid technology, the French with the TGV, and many others with solar and wind technologies. Give their rapid growth over the last decade, they still do not have one major global brand they export and compete of the world stage. Cheap labor and manufacturing is all they can offer. Once they are no longer the cheapest, companies will go elsewhere, especially if they keep stealing technologies.

If you can't eat it, wear it or use it, who in the hell would FLY IN IT? Everything in China is run by the Chinese Communist Government, and if you think they give a damn about international standards of any kind at all, then why do they steal, duplicate, and counterfeit every piece of intellectual property in the world.?? Try SUING a commie government and find out where you might disappear to.

FOR DUFFONG....

The situation is actually that major items in China are NOT "Chinese Made", but actually "COMMUNIST CHINESE GOVERNMENT MADE", and THAT is critical to quality, because a tainted or dangerous "product" will never put them OUT OF BUSINESS.