{"id":378787,"date":"2026-03-02T11:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T01:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-us-worried-china-growing-widebody-fleet\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T11:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T01:00:18","slug":"why-the-us-is-worried-about-chinas-growing-widebody-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=378787","title":{"rendered":"Why The US Is Worried About China\u2019s Growing Widebody Fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"260139\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>COMAC C929<\/span><\/span> is now well into its design phase. Full-scale mock-ups have appeared at shows around China, while an OSINT account, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Hurin92\/status\/2010240763242918330\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Hurin<\/a>, has reported that China has successfully test-run its prospective CJ-2000 engine. Some analysts are now expecting the aircraft to have its maiden flight around 2030 before entering service in the mid-2030s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are some concerns, but within limits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,118,3766,16569],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-china","category-comac-c929","category-manufacturers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=378787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378788,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378787\/revisions\/378788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=378787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=378787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=378787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}