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China Launches Own Aircraft Engine-Maker to Rival the West

posted by CoolHand on Monday August 29 2016, @07:42PM   
from the final-step dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

China has launched its first aircraft-engine manufacturer in an attempt to wean itself off Western suppliers.

The state-owned Aero-Engine Group of China was created by combining a group of existing aircraft-engine companies, according to local media reports.

It has about 50bn yuan ($7.5bn) in registered capital and will develop both military and commercial engines.

China already makes its own planes, but has struggled for decades to develop engines that meet global requirements.

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• Re:C-H-I-N-A, C-H-I-N-A, C-H-I-N-A Re:C-H-I-N-A, C-H-I-N-A, C-H-I-N-A (Score: 4, Insightful) by GungnirSniper on Monday August 29 2016, @10:21PM

  by GungnirSniper (1671) on Monday August 29 2016, @10:21PM (#394956) Journal

  Funny isn't it how fascist China, authoritarian Russia, and even dictatorships of many degrees are focused on the long game which emphasizes stability and cohesion over unrestrained capitalism's rampant rusting away.

  On a barely related note, with the upset over a benched football player not standing for an anthem, perhaps we should take a closer look at the idea that American soldiers who died in Iraq "died for our freedom" and somehow that our rights "are afforded to us" by a flag. Saddam was never going to put even a single soldier on our soil, and treating our flag like a symbol of worship is obscene.

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• Re:C-H-I-N-A, C-H-I-N-A, C-H-I-N-A (Score: 5, Insightful) by LoRdTAW on Monday August 29 2016, @10:58PM

  by LoRdTAW (3755) on Monday August 29 2016, @10:58PM (#394972) Journal

  On a barely related note, with the upset over a benched football player not standing for an anthem, perhaps we should take a closer look at the idea that American soldiers who died in Iraq "died for our freedom" and somehow that our rights "are afforded to us" by a flag. Saddam was never going to put even a single soldier on our soil, and treating our flag like a symbol of worship is obscene.

  Emphasis mine. The flag as a symbol of worship is nothing more than the establishment of another religion. The flag her cross, the dirt her eucharist. Personally I like the USA. Born here. But the blind, flag waving patriots and the vitriol they spew against people who protest such nonsensical worship is nauseating. And these are usually the same people who scream bloody murder about any perceived threat to the second amendment. Yet they completely forgot the first.

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