On April 15 and 16, 2025, a claim ( archived) circulated online that China had halted or canceled all its orders of airplanes from the American aircraft manufacturer Boeing. An X post of a news report on the topic was captioned:

Boeing Co. has begun flying 737 Max jets that were refused by Chinese airline customers back to the US, as the trade war between the two biggest economies escalates.

A Boeing jet earmarked for China was returning to the United States on Friday, flight tracking data showed, as the planemaker's flagship delivery plant outside Shanghai was drawn into a deepening tariff war between Beijing and Washington.