Posted on 05/20/2005 6:35:19 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Thu May 19, 9:24 AM ET
BEIJING (AFP) - China said it is opposed to the militarization of space, and supports international legal documents ensuring its peaceful use.
"Space is our shared treasure and we have consistently maintained the need for the peaceful use of space so as to benefit all of mankind," foreign ministry spokesman Kong Quan told a regular briefing.
"We are opposed to the militarization of outer space. We support preventive measures, including the adoption of international legal documents to guarantee the peaceful use of outer space," he said.
Kong's remarks came a day after the White House said it was updating its space policy while denying a report that the changes under consideration could lead to the fielding of offensive and defensive weapons in space.
Ping!
Too bad Bubba's not in power, eh, boys ?
Of course they might CHEAT like they do on everything else.
Nope. We're not sharing.
We got dibs on Mars! First one there gets it!
(we already own the moon, right?)
Your right! If Bubba was in power he would give them all the secrets and have the Chinese build it for us! That would save us a lot of Trouble and we could utilize the slave labor.
Good. They should practice what they preach and dismantle their ICBMs immediately.
It's the same reason that the Soviets opposed "Star Wars". They knew they couldn't compete.
At least until they have a chance to catch up with the US.
Only because it doesnt have the technology yet.
That's why they are making such a race to space.
it just dawned on them (and on the Russians) that the US has made it to the top of the mountain first and is basically in a pretty much unassailable position.
any chance the chicoms ever had of taking taiwan force (and it was always iffy at best) has been vaporized by some neat alien technology the US finally figured out how to reverse engineer from the UFO's that crashed in Roswell back in the late forties ;)
Ho..Hum...the commies are so predictable.
Well if we don't do it, where oh where will the Chi-Coms steal it from???
Yeah yeah yeah...cheap commie trick buying time for them to catch up and dominate...no different than the Russians
China says it opposes militarization of outer space
...by anybody but the People's Liberation Army Space Force!
China says it opposes militarization of outer space....
That's just because they're not quite as good at it as we are, yet.
once they get their space program competitive, they'll like it.
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