COMAC C919
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drunkmunky
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Use auto translation function，select English
Why should we care about Arab's views?
Because C919 is a commerical project and Arabs are potential customers?
by78
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Please stop spamming the flagship threads with random, low-quality Youtube content.
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Please stick to posting photos and leave the critical commentary to those who actually watched it. The video is from the Arabic Al Jazeera Plus channel. The host did a good job presenting a balanced overview of COMAC and C919 in arabic, and you can also translate it to english subtitles. The channel has nearly 6 million subscribers, mostly from western asia which also happens to be a very big commercial aircraft market. Such publicity for the C919 is quite rare and, frankly, badly needed by the C919.
by78
General
Affiliated with Al Jazeera? How does that lend it credibility? And how is subscriber count an indication of quality? CNN's Youtube channel has almost 15 million subs, almost triple that of this channel, and yet CNN is regarded as a poor source around here and for very good reasons. And since when did Al Jazeera – the CNN of the Middle East – and its affiliates become quality sources?
Another point, it's no longer enough to lazily post a foreign language video with a lackadaisical, non-descriptive one-liner along the lines of "so and so said something interesting about so and so". What makes it interesting? What are the points/questions raised that are interesting? What new information, considerations, or analyses does the video add? In other words, why should I spend 20 minutes of my time to read machine-translated subtitles based on a four-word blurb that it's interesting? Interesting how? And how does this single video represent the views of Arabs, as if Arabic peoples and countries are some kind of monolithic bloc, with little variations in means, public opinions, likes, desires, and wants?
P.S. Excuse me for being skeptical, since the original poster hasn't exactly been a good judge of what is relevant or interesting.
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I think the point is less about his analysis but to show general attitude of Arabs on C919. Arabs are potential markets for export.
Exporting C919 is a pipedream in the next 10 years. COMAC has neither the experience nor the infrastructure at supporting the plane in China, let alone supporting in West Asia's hostile environments.
And why should we care of what Arab think of C919 when the plane hasn't even completed development?
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