Comment by coderenegade

None of that is inherent. You could have said the same thing a decade ago about vehicle production, or microelectronics a decade before that, and yet here we are. The lesson we should learn from Comac is that China is quite happy to use its local market as a testbed until the technology is mature, and in the same way that it's only a matter of time before Comac has an internationally certified airframe and comes after the aerospace incumbents, it's also only a matter of time before they catch up in chip fabrication. This isn't about money for them.