"China is entirely capable of producing the weaponry needed for national defense, " spokesman Geng Yansheng told reports at a monthly briefing, pointing to recent domestic technological breakthroughs such as the country's first aircraft carrier, new generation fighter jets, large transport planes and the Beidou satellite system.

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Even airlines are getting in on the act, with Franco-Dutch carrier Air France-KLM currently in talks with Veolia Environnement's transport subsidiary over a possible joint venture in rail.

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When Seiji Maehara, the transport minister, forced Japan Airlines (JAL), the national flag-carrier, into a court-administered bankruptcy, he reportedly had to flout the wishes of his senior civil servants.

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Emirates has also thrived by entering markets in the rest of the Middle East, Africa, South-East Asia, India and Latin America that had hitherto been poorly connected to the global air-transport network because of over-regulation, the absence of a strong local flag carrier and the indifference of established airlines.

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Traffic on carrier backbone networks is growing exponentially, driving global momentum for commercial 100G deployments and attracting attention on optical transport beyond 100G.

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