For Toyota, it's a chance to curry favor in the California and larger US market, for Tesla, the car maker gets Toyota's technology & resources to help it transition from a highly niche player to a more robust force in the domestic auto market.
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"The internet will be a much more robust force in China because offline businesses are much less efficient," argues Duncan Clark of BDA, a telecoms consultancy in Beijing.Except in big cities near the coast, conventional retailing is fragmented and underdeveloped.
They, too, savored talking shop, leaning forward as they ran through the laundry list: jihadists in Mali, the "robust" force in Congo, the latest "weak state".
He also appears willing to endorse Israeli demands to have a robust security force in the Jordan Valley for years after a deal is signed in order to protect Israel's east flank, these officials say.
"So I think it's very important to maintain a robust police force in this department to keep the city moving forward," he said, "because if we slip, I think — in terms of this level of security, a sense of security — that a lot of other things that are moving in a very positive direction in the city could slip as well".
NATO no longer insists on commanding such a force, so long as its soldiers, even if they wore UN hats, made up its core.Mr Milosevic's readiness to contemplate a robust UN force would in itself be quite a concession.
From next year the Force Licorne, a 450-strong peacekeeping operation in Ivory Coast, will be beefed up and rebadged as a more robust force of some 800 troops.
After long insisting that the government in Khartoum accept a robust UN peacekeeping force in Darfur, America recently acquiesced in a deal for a far smaller force, under a "hybrid" UN-African Union command a Sudanese concession granted more because of Chinese than American pressure.
