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Your post said, "Some Chinese believe in their hearts that Chinese are really superior to Westerners in terms of basic abilities and see China's growing technological prowess as confirmation of these racial prejudices."

I have some experience with this attitude, and have found that not "Some Chinese believe in their hearts that Chinese are really superior to Westerners in terms of basic abilities" as much as "Almost all Chinese believe in their hearts that Chinese are really superior to Westerners in terms of basic abilities, morality, understanding, and virtue." I would go farther and call my words a vast understatement. Take the American view of Africans from 1900 and multiply by ten. Although I am certain not to be believed by most readers, more accurately multiply by one hundred!

The Korean slang word for Africans (and Koreans are not culturally or genetically very different from Chinese when compared to Westerners) is translated accurately as "rock apes." The Chinese are still somewhat intimidated by caucasians and so caucasians are rarely insulted to their faces (although ask one his opinion of Russians!), even though westerners are not seen by Chinese as much different from Africans.

So don't get a swelled head!

We have no one to blame but ourselves for sloughing off in the space race. As an astronautical engineering student at MIT in the late 70's - our systems engineering class was used by the professors to flesh out lunar mining and space manufacturing infrastructure designs - that they would present to Congress. That was then. What happened?

The ridiculously expensive Shuttle system siphoned off a lot of the funds that would otherwise have gone into more economical launch to LEO concepts - but the real problem was a dissolution of national will. Maybe China's launches will be a well-needed kick in the butt - a Sputnik II.