Why China Could Vanquish The U.S. In New Space Race

China wants to brag about the technology it has stolen by putting proof of that theft into orbit

Unfortunately for China, workmanship can’t be stolen and if their shoddy building practices, or say, the welding done on the frames of their vehicles is any indication, their space vehicles will be the same unsafe, disposable trash as the rest of their products.

China wants the world to think it was so easy peasy for them to get to space they did it on the first try. What the media will never tell you is the number of lives already lost. For instance, we never hear any data or chirping at all about their year-old dark-side-of-the-moon base, do we?

"Because every bit of technology they have was either given away, sold on the cheap, or otherwise flat-out stolen. "

Or sold and derived from such.

NYT. Nov. 19, 1993:

In a good-will gesture toward China, the Clinton Administration has agreed to sell it a sophisticated $8 million supercomputer, senior Administration officials said today.

The decision is part of the Administration's strategy to embrace rather than isolate China despite disagreements over human rights, weapons proliferation and trade. The Clinton Administration is determined to grab an ever-larger share of China's market, the fastest growing in the world, and reduce a trade deficit that could exceed the one with Japan by the end of the decade. G.E. Stands to Profit

Even more significant for American business, the Administration has also decided to lift the ban on important components for China's nuclear power plants, like generators, senior Commerce Department officials said.

But the decision to go forward with the supercomputer sale is strategically more important because it signals the Administration's willingness to sell high-technology equipment to Beijing.

The Administration decided to allow the sale despite clear evidence that China has broken its promises to Washington by exporting M-11 missile components and technology to Pakistan. Those exports violated an international missile control accord.

the Bush Administration postponed the sale last December after intelligence reports showed that China had exported the M-11 technology. But in the final days of his Administration, Mr. Bush overruled the Defense Department and ordered the approval of a license pending necessary processing.

Mr. Christopher also told Mr. Qian that the United States would be prepared to interpret an American law governing the export of high technology to China to allow the export of two of the seven sophisticated American-made satellites banned by sanctions imposed on China in August, senior Administration officials said.

https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/19/world/us-will-allow-computer-sale-to-court-china.html

unless their ripped off mars vehicle is much better than their ripped off f-35, those chinese astronauts are screwed.

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Because no matter how close a Chinese product is to a US made product - be it an apartment building or a Mars rover, they always go with the lowest bidder, unless a CCP member is biding, and use the cheapest components and construction methods possible, designed to fail in a certain number of years, if not sooner.

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