China and East Asia: September 2003

"Houston, We Have a Problem": China and the Race to Space

By: Joan Johnson-Freese

Description: "If the United States continues to exploit the obvious military advantages of space and China feels compelled to respond, a space race seems inevitable. It is inevitable because both countries recognize that space can provide advantages, or at least avoid disadvantages, regarding the other. Space may inevitably make China the third man in the fourth battlefield."

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