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Not a huge difference. “Gov’t program” still uses private labort. Same in China as here.

If US manufacturing is so great, why is the smart phone in your pocket and the tablet you are reading all made in China?

Discounting China’s space program is like discounting NASA in the 60s. Both are organizations that attracted the best and brightest the country had to offer. NASA is now nothing but a welfare, make work entity, China is an up and coming force.

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“3)As far as the cargo rocket exploding, it happens all the time, and a gaurentee you that it has happened more than once on Chinese launch pads, and will happen again.”

I guess US Rocket Scientists haven’t benefited from the 70 YEARS of US research and experience if they are still blowing up their products regularly.

I am not discounting the Chines space program; just making the point that we are still, despite what the libs have done to the space program, way ahead of them in the space game. Our (as in the West's) private sector can run cirlces around the Chinese government, if given a chance. Space travel is a dangerous and risky business. It is still in its infancy, despite the hubris about how technologically advance the human race is. Things blow up, it is part of playing the game. Thinking that it should not happen at all, is childish.

As far as your comment about manufacutring, I didn't mention it. Since you did, though, point out one thing the Chinese have not stolen, er I mean been handed. I mean one thing they developed on their own. There has always been technology sharing; ideas spread, that's what they do. Even with that, the Chinese have stolen, bought, or been handed every high tech thing they have.

If not for the West's suicidal tendencdies, China would still be wallowing in the aftemath of the Mao's Great Revolution. You'll not find a bigger supporter of reshoring, than me. That is as long as it is done by creating a climate in which companies willingly come here. If it entails calling companies that off-shore unpatriotic, and trying to legislate their staying; well I'd just as soon see the US fail than have that be our policy.