Posted on 04/15/2014 10:40:58 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
(Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping urged the air force to adopt an integrated air and space defence capability, in what state media on Tuesday called a response to the increasing military use of space by the United States and others.
While Beijing insists its space program is for peaceful purposes, a Pentagon report last year highlighted China's increasing space capabilities and said Beijing was pursuing a variety of activities aimed at preventing its adversaries from using space-based assets during a crisis.
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The world has moved beyond America as the world’s lone superpower. Our children and grandchildren will suffer the consequences.
“The world has moved beyond America as the world’s lone superpower.”
And to think it took 2 world wars to knock the Brits off of that perch.
We took two world-class blundered elections. I guess we are more efficient.
If they’re not already (secretly) up there, it is time for several properly positioned “Rods from God” satellites to be put in place.
Both parties have been selling out America for at least the last 14 years:
http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html#2014
Those trade deficits, represent jobs which were once done in America, but which are now done in China.
Our deficit just last year, was somewhere in the range of 318 billion dollars. It has been high and growing for at least the last entire generation.
That is a deficit of 318 billion dollars, on American exports of only 122 billion dollars.
We are giving away the future.
To a massive communist nation. Both parties.
We need to bring back American jobs.
Now.
America’s space policy makers have been fumbling the ball for decades.
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