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Written by Stumo   
Monday, 10 March 2008

The fact that Boeing lost the airforce refueling tanker contract to Airbus/Northrup Grummon is still making the news. Boeing argued that awarding it the contract would be good for American jobs, which is a great claim until you realize that Boeing is an aggressive outsourcing company.

Also, Boeing may be helping arm the Chinese military.  It owns 40% of the Chinese arms contractor BHA Aero Composites Company. 

The U.S. must maintain the ability to produce its defense domestically.  But Boeing is not the poster child for our national interests, and I'll not cry crocodile tears for them.

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written by China Watcher , March 10, 2008
When a country's largest exporter is also its largest outsourcer and when its largest outsourcer has a stranglehold on its largest manufacturing lobby, that country shouldn't be too surprised by a decline in its trade performance.

Ironically, Boeing was palpably unnerved in the 1980s by the thought that Indonesia (!!) aspired to build jet liners. At the time, its "industry" consisted of a raft of computers, mostly still in their shipping cartons, manned by kids barely out of high school. Simultaneously, Boeing warned US government officials that McDonnell Douglas -- then an also ran, today a part of Boeing -- was making a big mistake by outsourcing a single component to China. Today, having made its own Faustian bargain, Boeing seems shocked when the inevitable is happening: the world's largest aviation market intends to compete with Boeing and Airbus! That's not at all surprising; what's almost comical is the reaction by America's biggest chump.
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