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"Boeing (BA) CEO Jim McNerney is eager to move the company to China. Whether moving Boeing to China means shifting its headquarters from Chicago to Beijing is up in the air. But Boeing already has $600 million in supplier partnerships with China -- such as a deal with Shenyang Aircraft Corporation to build an assembly for the 787's vertical fin. And Stan Sorscher, who spent 20 years at Boeing before taking a post at the Society of Professional Engineers in Aerospace (SPEEA) in 2000, told me that McNerney is hooked on the idea of shifting Boeing to China."

Boeing has had huge problems since Mulally left. The 787 Dreamliner is WAAAAY behind schedule.

McNerney was having the suppliers do their own engineering, not Boeing. As a partial result the ECS, electrical and wing to fuselage connections have huge problems. Some have said they need to start over with the ECS system, it's DOA. The 787 is being built in pieces all over the world then assembled in various other places.

Now, he's promoting moving the company to China, it seems.

Anyone know? True? Rumor? Partly true?