US President Donald Trump signaled Tuesday via Twitter that he opposes efforts to block the sale of jet engines to China. Trump’s tweets appeared intended to thwart a proposal from within his own administration to limit exports of engines jointly produced by General Electric and a French company. “We don’t want to make it impossible to do business with us,’’ the president tweeted. China is using the engines to develop its own airliner, Comac C919, to compete with Boeing and Airbus. According to the Journal, U.S. officials worry that Beijing could reverse-engineer the engine and enter the jet engine market.

Source: The Standard February 19, 2020 02:15 UTC