Posted on 12/24/2019 1:08:26 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
Rising space power China on Monday attacked the newly created U.S. Space Force as a “direct threat to outer space peace and security."
Foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told reporters that China is “deeply concerned about it and resolutely opposed to it."
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Do not fight uphill on this terrain. If you get there first, set up high and wait for the enemy. ...
ok china
Don’t start nothing, won’t be nothing.
Just like Russia they are already admitting defeat, maybe not blatantly but they are....
And that is why Trump did it, if they don’t like it then it is good.
China has not mastered even the heavy lift portion of the militarization of space.
Russia has, but they don’t have the money for it.
It’s best to be first and biggest. Because it’s certain that all who can will be there.
China has not mastered the sea. They're just getting started on the Pacific with aircraft carriers and have a long way to go. Meanwhile, in space, the USA...
The chicoms are bleeding space c@nts. What would we expect from them?
Both countries are probably upset that the clintons or nobama (The Greatest Fraud Ever) aren’t in office. If they were i n office, I am sure they would make a under-the-table money deal to give them the technology (see Lorel and pallets of cash to Iran).
Chuck Fina. Not a single gift under the tree this year come from that shithole country.
As if China wouldn’t do the same and more, if they could have been first.
Is this the same China that tested a satellite killer when the entire world told them not to because it would litter space with millions of bits of metal that could destroy other satellites.
They have already militarized space years ago and they have the nerve say we are a threat to outer space security.
What do you think the X-37 has been doing going into orbit and staying into orbit ? We have the ability to launch and orbit long range missions that no other nation has. Add to this the coming commercialization of space by civil companies and we are seeing a new chapter in human history. One where the USA will have a major say.
Sounds like the space force is a good move, if it ticks off China. Get it rolling!
Both Russia and China have hypersonic controllable nuclear missiles. The U.S. doesn’t.
I was for it as soon as our domestic enemies mocked it.
China can’t even refrain from trying to block oceanic pass points. Who are they kidding?
There’s an Amazon series, based on a series of books, called The Expanse. Interesting premise about colonizing space and mining the asteroid belt and the various political independent movements of the colonists - with the necessary love stories, space battle scenes and dramatic turns to make it a dramatic series.
The Chinese government is going to be a thorn in our ass for decades to come. It will not be resolved quickly by any means.
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