China has agreed to buy 200 Boeing jets, its first major order in nearly a decade, U.S. President Donald Trump said last week.

China's Commerce Ministry also said that both countries will work towards an extension of the tariffs truce they agreed in October.

China’s demand for passenger jets is genuine – but so is its aim to build a commercially credible aviation industry.

For most of 2026, investors have been focused on interest rates, tariffs, and whether the U.S. economy is slowing into a softer patch. Yet underneath the macro noise, one trend has quietly reemerged: governments are using industrial deals to strengthen economic ties.

LYNNWOOD, Washington, Feb ⁠11 (Reuters) - ⁠Boeing has seen ⁠huge quality improvements in its commercial airplane supply chain over the last two years, an ‌executive at the planemaker said ‌on Wednesday. Boeing spends 40% fewer hours ⁠fixing ...

Gene Munster of Deepwater Asset Management and Elon Musk biographer Walter Isaacson have floated the idea that Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) and SpaceX could combine within the next decade. This remains speculation rather than a deal.

Boeing has quietly gone back to the drawing board on the airplane it has needed for years but kept putting off: a clean-sheet single-aisle jet larger than anything in the 737 MAX family, sized to fill the gap left when the company stopped building the 757 more than two decades ago.

There isn't a single airliner that can replicate all of the Boeing 757's capabilities, but perhaps the market doesn't require one.