Company
COMAC
TL;DR
China's state-owned aircraft manufacturer developing competitive narrow-body aircraft (C919) that threatens the Boeing-Airbus duopoly.
China's state-owned aircraft manufacturer developing competitive narrow-body aircraft (C919) that threatens the Boeing-Airbus duopoly. COMAC represents an external competitive threat that could potentially force cooperation between former rivals Boeing and Airbus to preserve market share.
The emergence of COMAC illustrates how external threats can shift competitive dynamics from internal arms races to external cooperation - analogous to how mutual threats cause former rivals to cooperate in biological systems.