We Like You Just Fine, But Please Use the Servant's Entrance

Forbes tells us today that Airbus, in the middle of its Power8 garage sale, has decided that China's AVIC I's bid on buying six European Airbus plants was not going to be accepted.

I mean, it's one thing to sell the Chinese an assembly line for an aircraft that's more or less obsolete, albeit a good seller, but this?

Amazing. And they call us protectionists.