Compared with most of the aerospace and aviation industry, business aviation is not very political. While other sub-sectors struggle with political influence even when a government is not the buyer, business jet makers mostly sell their products in deals too small to attract attention, a bit like the car industry. And their customers' use of the aircraft is, for the most part, a purely private matter. Well, that is not true in China just now, where politics are front and center for business aviation. Probably the biggest question here for manufacturers is how long Beijing will maintain an anti-corruption drive that has frightened rich Chinese away from private flying. When showing off a jet is no longer asking to be investigated, the theory goes, the buyers will come back.
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