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As a journalist who has followed both the aerospace sector and China’s global emergence for many years, I can honestly say that I wasn’t surprised when China recently announced its intent to get into the jumbo-jet airliner business.

It’s one of the biggest product-development programs in Asia right now, and it could easily determine whether Japan remains a global industrial powerhouse – or limps into the future as an international has been.