The arrival of an alleged surveillance spy balloon in the skies over the U.S. on the eve of a high level diplomatic visit to China by top U.S. officials rapidly cooled the expectations of the country’s largest exporter to resume single-aisle jetliner deliveries.
Boeing has started building 737 Max aircraft again for China, but the plane maker Comac -- its Chinese counterpart -- are at the mercy of the peculiar adversarial interdependence between China and the U.S.