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Two Views On a China-US Space Race
An anonmous submitter writes "While there has been recent discussion about China and India engaging in a space race, most people are still focused on a potential race between China and the US in near future. The Space Review recently published a pair of essays on this topic: the first argues that China-US space race is both unlikely and undesirable, given the aftermath of the US-USSR space race thirty years ago. A followup article suggests that a China-US space race is vital, so long as it takes a more commercial, long-term approach than the US-USSR one. Food for thought..."
Because no matter what bombastic rhetoric the left may try to throw at us, the fact is the US is on the whole relatively responsible with that military power, and does not use it to repress people as we would be afraid China will.
Even the inevitable replies yelling about Iraq are off the mark; no matter how you slice it, we didn't off Saddam so that we would have the priviledge of repressing Iraqis.
People in the world do not seriously worry about American planes coming tommorow night, unless they've openly declared themselves to be America's enemies. Ask Taiwan how they'd feel about the Chinese becoming powerful, or many of the other Asian countries. Different stories.
(And to the inevitable whining leftists hitting reply right now: There's a world of difference between claiming perfection, which I'm not, and claiming essential responsibility. Why don't you try a more nuanced worldview on for size, with a few more grays and a few less blacks and whites?)
If on the other hand the "death trap" refers to interactions between people, then maybe it would make more sense as was done in Hitchhiker's Guide to send the trouble makers on ahead.
Or what happened in the 16th and 17th Centuries. All the crazy psychos from Europe wanted to escape because they were being 'persecuted' so they went and pushed the American frontiers. This is why European countries have had no major problems with each other from the 1600s onwards to now.