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Mix-Ansicht- There ain't no such thing as Space Technology out of thin air... - kingsolomon, 13.06.2003, 12:18
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There ain't no such thing as Space Technology out of thin air...
-->und dass es auch kein manifacturing out of thin air gibt, werden die
Amis bald leidvoll am eigenen Leib zu spĂĽren bekommen.
Das 'American Foreign Policy Council' macht sich Sorgen wg. des
Erstarkens einer neuen Supermacht im Osten. Und das kann sehr schnell
gehen( Bsp. die Mongelei ist direkt aus der 'Steinzeit' auf ein
flächendeckendes Mobilfunknetz umgestiegen, ohne mühsam Drähte zu verlegen )
The Hong Kong Sunday Morning Post believes"a new colossus may be forming in the east as Russia and Red China edge toward a symbiotic relationship that could create the world's next economic, military and space faring superpower." Communist Chinese President Hu Jintao used his first official trip abroad to visit Russia, to sign far-reaching co-operation agreements in energy, space engineering, arms supplies and regional security.
"Relations with Red China constitute the most important factor in Russian foreign policy strategy," says Gennady Chuffrin, deputy director of Russia's Institute for World Economy and International Relations. A landmark deal to build a US$2.5 billion oil pipeline from Siberia to the Communist Chinese industrial center of Daqing, commits Red China to buy at least US$150 billion of Russian crude over 25 years."This is more than just a commercial deal, it is a strategic choice," says Sergei Lusyanin, at the Institute of Far Eastern Studies in Moscow.
Russia is also aiding Communist China's urgent modernization of its armed forces, while assisting Red China's ambitious space program, which plans to launch its first manned mission this October and hopes to establish a moon base by 2010. Last year, Communist China purchased 55 per cent of Russia's nearly US$5 billion in arms exports. Some experts fear that Russia may eventually regret helping Red China become a military superpower."Many Russians worry," says an expert at the Institute of Oriental Studies in Moscow,"that one day the Chinese will just come and take Siberia away from us."
Communist China is engaged in an aggressive space program that could challenge the United States in space exploration - including a physical presence on the moon - and strategic positioning within a decade, writes former Congressman Robert Walker, the recent Chairman of the Commission on the Future of the US Aerospace Industry in the Washington Times. At the Russian Star City cosmonaut training facility, a Red Chinese crew in residence has been utilizing EVA [extra-vehicular activity] technologies, used in space-based construction work."The Chinese are devoting substantial resources and gearing up to do some things [in space] that we are no longer technologically capable of achieving in the immediate future," Walker observes."Our space technology today could not be used to replicate what we [the US] did 35 years ago [in the moon walk]," Walker adds."Our strategic thinkers [should] acknowledge the profound impact on the balance of power. China could leapfrog the world in some important earthbound technologies," such as achieving nuclear fusion, as well as developing options for military-related missions.
The building of two diesel submarines for China's navy has been initiated in a ceremony at Sevmash defence industry shipyards in Severodvinsk, ITAR-TASS reports. Russia and China struck the deal in May 2002 for the construction of eight Kilo-class diesel-electric submarines for China, in a deal worth $1.6 billion to be completed by 2005. The Kilo-class submarines are among the world's quietest submarines.
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