U.S.-China Space Alliance Urged

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[maui_hawaii]

The United States should work on joint space projects with China, which is preparing to send its first person into space, the China chief of U.S. aerospace company Boeing said. China is working on becoming the third nation to undertake manned spaceflight, and many analysts believe the mission could blast off around the country's October 1 National Day.

[Frank_Discussion]

Naw, Kevin, they could provide a vital role in our military applications. We build interceptors, and they can take a primal part of our targeting test program.

VBEG

[King Prout]

no, no, a bazillion times: NO!
the US'd get nothing, the ChiComs would get everything.
That is not how one survives.

[headsonpikes]

The Boeing guy should read Upton Sinclair's 'World's End'.

Being an arms merchant isn't all beer and skittles.

[lara]

Thanks for the ping! And your response works for me.

[RightWhale]

EU and China are set to collaborate on GALILEO the European global system of satellite navigation An agreement has been reached between the European Union and China on its participation in the GALILEO programme. This agreement was initialled in Beijing on 18 September 2003 by Mr F. Lamoureux, Director-General of Energy and Transport at the European Commission, and Mr Shi Dinghuan, Secretary General of China's Ministry of Science and Technology. “China will help GALILEO to become the major world infrastructure for the growing market for location services,” said Loyola de Palacio, Vice-President of the European Commission, responsible for the GALILEO programme. Her counterpart in the negotiations, China's Science and Technology Minister Xu Guanhua highlighted that “China supports GALILEO and plans to participate actively in its construction and application for mutual benefits”. . . .

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Don't want America to work cooperatively? Want America to go it alone? America's school pupils are already 15th in the industrialized world and dropping. Well, it's just America's future flushing itself down the tubes, no big deal.