[CorpRatt]

Were you aware that China, while technically on the grow, are just now doing what the United States and before them the Soviet Union did 30+ years ago.

Also, their population is so large that if external trade were cut off, or even minor damage to their transportation infrastucture would result in people going hungry within days and starvation for some areas within a week.

Now in Industrial Espionage, Global Economics and even the Internet China can and is a threat. But then again so is Japan and every other country in that region.

China is not a threat at present. 30 years from now when they have a space fleet and can claim large chunks of lunar real estate or even whole planets... that is another story.

Instead of another arms race... lets go to space ! Let them pay for a ticket ... ;)

"Delta Spacelines Flt 3244 Departing Launchway 23 for Lunar Orbit and Stops at Mars and Jupiter "

byarst

[Cincinatus' Wife]

How nice for the Chinese to leap ahead with the assistance of our R&D. They are a threat. They are communists. It is not going to take them anywhere near 30 years to cause us grief. And all the while NASA is pouring money into looking for bugs on Mars. Good grief. It's time NASA was given a mission that tied it to national security. The Moon is where we need to be and from where future space exploration will evolve. The Chinese know this and they are the tortise working toward that goal.