China traded Russian aircraft technologies for Western ones: wide-body aircraft to be implemented without Russian Federation - South China Morning Post

China traded Russian aircraft technologies for Western ones: wide-body aircraft to be implemented without Russian Federation - South China Morning Post
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Russia and China launched a joint project of a 280-passenger wide-body aircraft in 2017. Its cost is $50 billion. However, China rejected Russian technology.

"China, as it becomes an industrial giant, is less and less interested in our services," former Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov admitted in June of this year.