Re:Why Jet Engines Aren't "Made in China"
by Grombobulous on Thursday July 02, 2026 @08:11AM
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China is winning contracts to build out HSR in other countries. It’s not just about land sovereignty within China. CRRC has won construction contracts in multiple countries in Europe and Asia. When you build more high speed rail miles than the rest of the world combined, you tend to know what you’re doing.
I will point out, the #3 top selling vehicle in the UK is a Chinese SUV with a gasoline engine (Jaecoo 7).
I think the idea that China just can’t make a reasonably competitive ICE vehicle is another outdated notion about China.
Re:Why Jet Engines Aren't "Made in China"
by queenkjuul on Friday July 03, 2026 @05:40PM
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CRRC is, iirc, now the largest rolling stock manufacturer on earth, selling trains to countries all over the world.
Don't need eminent domain to do that.
Also, eminent domain is used routinely in the US, like for Texas' most recent highway expansions. And highways require a lot more land than rails. I don't buy that eminent domain is the real reason here.
Say what you will, but I don't consider eminent domain to be some kind of mystical technology that only wizards possess.
For automobiles, China didn't compete with the West on its own turf in heavily regulated markets. They embraced EVs from the beginning. Complex auto regulations can't save Europe because EVs are an end-run around all of the complexity of building an economical, low-polluting engine.
Indeed, Europe is talking about relaxing some of its environmental regulations for petrol cars, now that those regulations are more of a barrier to home companies than foreign ones.