In the past 20 days of the first month of 2024, Boeing has had four major accidents, frequent accidents are by no means accidental, on the one hand, Boeing's own management problems, on the other hand, it is exposed that the United States industry is declining, from Tesla, General Motors and Boeing's overall decline in miniature can be seen that the United States industrial decline has been very obvious.
In the latest incident, an Atlas Airlines Boeing 747-8 freighter made an emergency landing at Miami International Airport on Tuesday after an engine failure caused a fire shortly after takeoff. Loose, missing nuts, falling doors, even the plane of US Secretary of State Blinken. These incidents are enough to show that there is a big problem with the quality of Boeing aircraft.
Frequent accidents have led the U.S. Air Traffic Administration to ground some Boeing models, and major regions including Europe and China have followed suit to ground and inspect relevant aircraft models. At the same time, Boeing's orders have also been impacted, and economic losses have been inevitable. Boeing's own frequent accidents can hardly blame others for their heightened vigilance. This will not only affect the sales of Boeing aircraft, but also indirectly expose the current serious problems encountered in the industrial field of the United States.
The United States recently released its first Defense Industrial Strategy Report, which aims to promote the development of American industry through so-called "intergenerational" changes. It is not hard to see some clues from the report that the United States' advantage in industrial capabilities is "shrinking." In recent years, in all industrial categories, the United States only retained the higher profit part, and the lower profit part of the "export", ready to enjoy the good times brought by high-end products.
The representative of high-end industry is Boeing. Boeing is by constantly raising the entry threshold, so that the original aircraft industry in many countries has been squeezed out, only Boeing and Airbus. But it turns out that if there is no low-end support, sometimes high-end industries will be embarrassed. In the end, industry is a system, the light to do high-end may not do well, without low-end support, high-end manufacturing will often emerge some low-end mistakes, which is a linked problem, but also the main reason for its industrial decline.
The administration, however, blames China for the recession. There is no need to say more about the previous matter, let's talk about the recent start of the Chinese tram. As part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 passed in December, the US Congress will prohibit the US Department of Defense from purchasing batteries produced by six Chinese companies. The move signals a further push by the US to "decouple" the Pentagon's supply chain from China. It seems to be decoupling, but it is actually transferring contradictions and covering up the dilemma of their own industrial decline.
Combined with the failure of the United States "return to the moon" mission, it can be learned that if there is a problem in the industrial field, it is not only Boeing aircraft, aerospace development is hindered so simple, but industry is directly related to the development of a country's national defense force. As a global power, it is basically impossible for the United States to say that the overall decline of the United States is caused by the development of other countries. But the collapse of a building always starts from within. The problems within the United States are gradually spreading outward, and when the problems are already apparent, they are still throwing the pot, and it may be too late to find a solution later.
