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Anyone else wonder if much of their R&D and design on this is coming from international espionage? Chinese exfiltration of sensitive industrial data is becoming pretty well known.

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That would probably make me feel better about getting on one of these.

I don't know about that....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Abyss

That story is probably untrue, but the potential for similar things has to be there.

Hum, what decade are you living in? Espionage? They just contract international suppliers, designers and engineering R&D firms, exactly the same as Airbus or Boeing do. I know that many suppliers in France work for Chinese aircraft manufacturers. It's not like we are at war or something. As other user commented, if you look at the BOM of this plane you will see that a lot of components are internationally outsourced.

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