U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said on Sept. 28 that China was holding back domestic airlines from purchasing “tens of billions of dollars” of U.S.-manufactured Boeing Co. airplanes. “There’s tens of billions of dollars of planes that Chinese airlines want to buy but the Chinese government is standing in the way,” she said in a question-and-answer session after a Tuesday speech in Washington. Raimondo said Beijing was turning back on its words over the phase one trade deal with the former administration in 2020. The deal, signed by the Chinese regime, aimed to vastly increase Chinese purchases of U.S. manufactured products. In mid-January last year, China committed to buy an additional $200 billion of U.S. goods and services over the following two years from the corresponding 2017 pre-trade war baseline level, including aircraft, pharmaceuticals, and industrial machinery. The agreement went into effect on Feb. 14, 2020. Yet Beijing’s reluctance on …