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China Plans Manned Space Launch By 2005
cosyne writes: "CNN.COM has this article on China's space program planning to send a man to the moon. 'The mission is part of Beijing's plans to create a space industry and earn the prestige of joining the United States and Russia as the only nations to have sent humans into space.' I wonder if they'll make it before the recently mentioned amateurs."
that technology Bill Clinton allowed Loral to sell to the Chinese being put to good use.
After all, if you can put a man in space, you can put a nuke in Washington.
Point granted: Just as the European Union, China is no longer willing to accept the U.S. as the world's single most important power.
Question: Despite that, the USA and the EU seem to get along quite well. The EU and Russia get along well. Do you _need_ a different big bad enemy in the world? Or is China scaring because it works so very different from Western culture?
I don't think China wants to actually attack the U.S. Much too dangerous, too much common econmic interests, and much more of those ahead. Globalisation really makes wars between industrial states akin to economic suicide. Why does it scare you that China is developing a military potential which can match the USA? The idea is to lower America's single biggest influence in the world, not to bomb it into oblivion. And the EU is working on that too, by the way, they just don't shout it out loud.
(Side note: Human Rights have been proven to be a Good Thing for Western cultures. What makes us so sure they work for cultures which are not in any way comparable to ours?)
Greets,
Anno.