Originally Posted by
Superpilot
We are going to poke fun at the Chinese venture into aerospace (naturally) but one thing you need to know about Chinese culture is that they don't like failure, as to fail means to lose face.
Which is why they have a tendency to hide bad news and failure rather than not have it in the first place. Bankruptcy and failure is quite common in China, but you wont hear about it. hardly a good sign for an industry that needs openness and honesty.
Originally Posted by
Superpilot
And so their attitude to engineering right now will be way more robust than Boeing's over the last decade.
China doesn't do 'engineering' - it does 'copying' without necessarily the insight into why things are the way they are - and then buries the failures.