Making progress: A rocket carrying the unmanned spacecraft Shenzhou 8 blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China's Gansu Province. Daily Mail
Red Shift: China Building Up Space Warfare Capabilities, Report Says -- Washington Free Beacon
China’s military is building up space warfare forces with missiles, military satellites, and electronic systems designed to attack U.S. satellites and space-transiting precision strike vehicles, according to a congressional report.
“The [People’s Liberation Army] PLA is rapidly improving its space and counterspace capabilities in order to advance [Chinese Communist Party] interests and defend against perceived challenges to sovereignty and territorial integrity,” the report by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission states. The little-noticed report was made public April 26.
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My Comment: China has the space scientists .... of which a good number were educated in the U.S.. They also have the resources and means to develop a space program .... no problem for the world's second largest economy. Throw in the fact that they have the will and determination to develop a comprehensive space program .... so .... it should not surprise us to see a Chinese space program that is not only quickly developing into a major power .... but .... also having a heavy military component behind it.
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