Think about China pressuring everyone in their neighborhood to buy Airbus instead of Boeing. Bad example: 51% of the sub-assemblies in the Airbus 380 super-jum

Think about China pressuring everyone in their neighborhood to buy Airbus instead of Boeing. Bad example: 51% of the sub-assemblies in the Airbus 380 super-jumbo are made in the USA. Meanwhile, around 51% of the sub-assemblies in the Boeing 787 are made ... guess where? (The Boeing/Airbus cross-subsidy cat-fight in front of the WTO has been going on for about two decades now, and both sides are (a) firmly entrenched and (b) have been working for years on "poison pill" policies to deter both the USA and the EU from slapping an embargo on the rival manufacturer.) One of the side-effects of the current free trade regime (and, importantly, our vastly improved global communication infrastructure) is that it becomes much harder for countries to haul up the trade barriers because complex fabrications come from non-obvious places. (Another random example: the best-selling Japanese SUV in the UK, the Nissan Qashqai, was designed in, and is largely manufactured in ... England.)