Hong Kong, May 14 -- Zhang Yanzhong, a senior academician at the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the former chief scientist of the Aviation Industry Corporation of China, on April 30, 2026, published a paper acknowledging a very real risk that the country could be cut off entirely from components made in the West. Read More The publication and its findings were reported by the South China Morning Post (SCMP) this week. According to Zhang, many critical COMAC C919 parts came from Western companies. He warned that global "geopolitical competition" and a "decoupling" push by the US and Europe had "intensified the risk to China's large aircraft supply chain". Zhang recalled that in 2020, the Leap-1C engine powering the C919 jet had faced a "...