Keeps them moving. Envy, anger, outrage, disgust are the Internet emotions.

I have a kid like that, privileged, good school. He cannot spell, he will never be able to spell, he cannot see the letters. It is usual in French schools to count spelling mistakes in any test, be it French or English, or history or physics. Without the protection of special instructions, my kid would be forced to leave school.

Yes, the truth will come out when some American citizens get killed on a flight.
See the saga of the 737 Max and the "foreign pilots".
Trump in person had to ground the 737 Max because the FAA was so captive to the industry that they didn't do it on their own.

This is the central question - and in the absence of a factual answer, the most politically convenient facts will be adopted.

Unfortunately there is a history of this in aviation accident investigation where every aircraft manufacturer is a "national champion"

What a surprise, China has a government that has a finger in every pie.
It's perfectly legitimate to want to embargo them, but pretending to "discover" that the communists run the country is an insult to the voter.

Is this paper going to get an IGNobel?

We can agree EU is not good at tech but world class in extracting revenue from syntax.

The enshittification of engineering at Boeing has gone so far that at some point they will hire Elon to save them ...
In the mean time Elon deserves to get all their space contracts.

As Snowden showed, a lot of info flows from our "privately owned" companies to our state actors too.
Maybe in the end as we won't trust them and they don't trust us we'll just chop the Internet in too with a Checkpoint Charlie for data packets at the interface.

Nice to see the US is explaining to China how to sabotage the tech that the US spies are going to try and steal in the coming years.

Most probably? Have you heard the name Daszak?

Actually what they were hiding were research projects with a certain lab in Wuhan.

Have you actually seen exactly what they were trying to hide? Spoiler alert - it's something that happened BEFORE Covid became a pandemic and that involved Chinese partners. You might be a bit ... uncomfortable, when you read it.

Do they get to be friends later in life?