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In This Issue   Feature: Asia Letter, Q1 2016: Toyota in Silicon Valley   Toyota in Silicon Valley Japanese Self-Driving Cars Mitsubishi Commercial Jets & Rockets China Delivers Its First Passenger Jet Hynix Says No to Tsinghua Why Save the Ex-Im Bank? An Email Exchange with a US Representative About Scott Foster   Inside SNS   Upcoming SNS Events   Where's Mark?

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by Scott Foster

 

 

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            By Scott Foster

 

 

"We're glad we're finally back to the supersonic age."

 

- Philippines Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin, welcoming the delivery

 of the first two of 12 FA-50 fighter jets ordered from Korea Aerospace

Industries; quoted in The Yomiuri Shimbun, November 30, 2015.

 

 

"This is us looking back east of Suez thinking about future threats and challenges . . . ."

 

- Unnamed UK official commenting on PM David Cameron's decision

to double the number of British personnel taking part in the annual

five-power war games in Malaysia; quoted in The Telegraph, July 30, 2015.

(The five powers are the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and Malaysia.)

 

 

"This is the first small step that allows us to go beyond automobiles and make use of the Toyota group's potential by utilizing artificial intelligence."

 

- Toyota president and CEO Akio Toyoda , commenting on the company's plan

to establish an artificial-intelligence and robotics research center in Silicon Valley; quoted in Nikkei, November 6, 2015.