Boeing made an strategic offer to acquire Embraer this year, before Embraer makes a dent on their market, but since it's a government controlled company there's a good chance it won't take the offer.
Though the most recent news on this says the deal is in advanced stages (according to Estadão). Apparently, it's likely to happen, given the appointment of a government representative to the board of the newly-formed company.
[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Superjet_100
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China's AICC is also buying the rights to produce An-225s, including the tooling and training, supposedly in order to jump forward a bit more on engine tech (the C919 will use CFM Leap engines built overseas.
Russia and China have a bit more leverage to get their airlines to buy home-grown aircraft.
China feels almost like a first world nation at this point (albeit a weird one).
India, even in the most prosperous/developed city is still essentially a crappy 3rd world place.
I don't think India will naturally follow the progress China has made, and I definitely don't think amazing manufacturing will suddenly spring up from nowhere in India.
Having friends here now I want to see them succeed but at this point most of them that can figure out how to leave here, do.
(Just paraphrased what he said, I've never been in India).
As an Indian, I would say you are right. India is attempting to skip several cycles of progress and arrive at the end result. There are also deep socio-economic problems to solve.
A more important problem is that quality of Human resources. Things like infrastructure are easier to fix compared to building a educated, civilized and highly trained workforce.
>>I don't think India will naturally follow the progress China has made
The Chinese kind of politics is impossible in a country as diverse as India. If you force through you only end up breaking the country. So we will never have a single party, single flavor rule in India.
The biggest problem is that india has a mindset problem. They, especially their leaders, academics, etc do not see themselves as a major nation. It's why india is still part of the british commonwealth.
> The Chinese kind of politics is impossible in a country as diverse as India. If you force through you only end up breaking the country.
That's the mindset I was speaking of. Indians themselves see progress as impossible. Also, China is a diverse nation as well, that hasn't prevent them from organizing and progressing.
What india needs is a healthy dose of nationalism and learn to stand on her own. But that will never happen as long as india is subservient to britain. India has a world of potential and none of the execution. All because of the mindset of the leadership and the people. It's tragic.
And as mentioned in a comment above the first-world sections are mainly the large cities, the countryside is still essentially third-world conditions.
Plus recently it seems China has become very increasingly anti-Western, this man has lived there 12 years and has said recently a strong anti-Western vibe has begun to be noticeable.
There was a brief period of competition in the late 70s / 80s when Airbus and Lockheed were trying to be different. Order was soon restored, then came the 90s with the regional jet fad and the rise of Embraer and Bombardier.
But now we're back to a big duopoly. Ilyushin are still around but only Cuba still buys from them. The next shake-up will come from China; once their civil aviation designs reach the sophistication of their military aircraft they'll start earning orders across Asia, then Europe..