It is undoubtedly a great service that Ukraine has just rendered, and its president Volodymyr Zelenskiy, to the United States and to the West, by deciding to nationalize the national aircraft engine manufacturer Motor Sich, to prevent the company, and its know-how in aircraft and helicopter engines, from falling under the control of the Chinese company Skyrizon, and by the same to allow the Chinese aeronautical industries to fill their gap. delay in the field of aeronautical turbojets and turboprop engines. In doing so, President Zelenskiy exposes Ukraine to Beijing's anger, as well as significant damagesat least if we believe Skyrizon's official speech.
The takeover of Motor Sich by the Chinese industrial groups Tianjiao Aviation Industry Investment Co (Skyrizon Aircraft) and Xinwei Group was carried out in December 2019, when the Ukrainian company UkrOboronProm, which heads the defense and aeronautics activity in the country, agreed to sell to the two groups in Beijing. 50% of the company's shares for $ 1 billion, with the promise of numerous investments to develop the Zaporizhia site and its 20.000 employees, as well as to perpetuate the activity and in particular the R&D of this company which develops, among other things, engines of Antonov transport planes, as well as engines of helicopters and drones.
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