Deano Ferg

China’s first homemade large passenger jet, the C919, being pulled out of a hangar during an offline ceremony at the final assembly plant of COMAC in Pudong, Shanghai, China, on November 2, 2015

China has reached a major milestone in its quest to disrupt the Boeing-Airbus duopoly over commercial aircraft manufacturing. In December 2022, the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) delivered its first C919 aircraft, a narrow-body jet seeking to compete with the Boeing 737 MAX and Airbus A320neo families. COMAC’s nascence (it was founded in 2008), among …

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Russia invoking resurrected laws on dissent

To cap it all off, any publication or social media post by a foreign agent must be accompanied by an irritating disclaimer typed in block capitals to ensure that anyone innocently browsing the content is immediately made aware that its author is an outcast from society. Threatening ostracization as a …

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