Red Star in Orbit

China has joined an elite club of world powers with its launch of the manned Shenzhou spacecraft – code-named Project 921. However, the Chinese manned space program is neither a civilian effort nor peaceful.

The Chinese manned space program is under the complete and direct control of the People's Liberation Army (PLA). The Shenzhou missions are part of an overall space program under the personal command of PLA general Li Jinai.

Gen. Li is a senior member of the Central Military Commission and head of the General Armaments Department of the PLA. Li was trained in Russia and has played a major role in the Chinese army’s strategic nuclear weapons modernization program.

Li has a vested interest in seeing Project 921 succeed. The Long March missiles, deployed as part of China's nuclear arsenal, are interchangeable with the rockets powering the Shenzhou manned space program.

The fact that the Chinese army is running Project 921 comes as no surprise to many defense analysts, who contend that the Shenzhou spacecraft was designed for war. While the spacecraft is slated to carry one Chinese astronaut, its primary cargo is a high-resolution camera for military space-based reconnaissance.

"China is pursuing a manned space program for two key reasons. First and most important is its political payoff for the Chinese Communist Party, which shows that amid all China's raging crises that the Party can still rally the nation," stated Richard Fisher, a senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy.

"Second, but just as important, is that the manned space program serves to justify a far more expansive military-civil space program and the expensive investment in a large technical infrastructure that it requires," noted Fisher.

The new Chinese military space effort has also raised more than just international security questions. China has reportedly spent billions of dollars on its military manned space mission while ignoring crushing poverty, inadequate education and poor health care for its people.

"The Chinese government has a large amount of hard currency. They could use the money for education because millions of people in China do not have an opportunity to go to school. They could use it for health care to prevent epidemics and disease. Instead, they are spending it on aerospace," stated Harry Wu, a prominent human rights advocate and executive director of the Laogai Research Foundation.

"The U.S.-China trade generates billions of dollars in profits. The Chinese government is using this profit not for schools or hospitals. They are spending it for aerospace. This is exactly the same kind of national spending priority that the Soviet Union engaged in. The space launch is not for the Chinese people. It is so that China can become the world's Communist superpower," concluded Wu.

China has had assistance from America in its effort to reach for the stars. Chinese space engineers openly admit that the People's Liberation Army is using U.S.-made software and computers to improve its ballistic missile force and military manned space missions.

Cheng Qifeng, an engineer at the Shaanxi Engine Design Institute in Xian, admitted that PLA engineers are using Electronic Data Systems’ Unigraphics CAD/CAM computer-aided design software to help improve rocket engines for both space and ballistic missile applications.

Cheng made the statements during the recent Beijing Asia-Pacific conference on multilateral space cooperation.

"We chose Unigraphics software as the core software of our liquid rocket engine CAD/CAM system," stated Cheng.

Cheng noted that the PLA had made improvements on turbo pumps, oxygen pressure pumps, fuel pumps and gas generator hardware "using hybrid modeling technology supplied by Unigraphics software" running on UNIX and Windows NT workstations.

The Chinese army runs all space activities from its brand new mission control facility located 30 miles northwest of Beijing. The control center is packed with U.S.-made computers supplied during the Clinton administration.

In fact, the Chinese military space effort owes much to the former U.S. president. The Chinese army succeeded in obtaining a wide range of U.S. missile technology from the Clinton administration, including satellite control facilities, satellite image processing facilities, missile nose cone design, multiple warhead delivery systems, guidance systems, kick-motor designs and computer systems for ground and space control.

In addition, documents show that the Chinese military obtained radiation-hardened chip technology, including space-based encrypted control systems, with the personal approval of President Clinton. Radiation-hardened computer chip technology is considered to be a key element of atomic warfare because it gives the Chinese army the ability to fight and control its forces during nuclear combat.

The Chinese manned space program is already planning its next step beyond Shenzhou flights. While the U.S. space shuttle program remains grounded, China has already stated it intends to orbit its own space station before 2008. The space station is designed to be used as a military reconnaissance platform with larger optical systems and better ground resolutions.

"Should China's manned space program meet with success, and soon [progress] to manned space stations as is expected, it is inevitable that there will be increasing calls in the U.S. and Europe to expand space cooperation with China. This would be unwise as long as China remains a key proliferator of weapons of mass destruction, serves as North Korea's main protector, and prepares for war against democratic Taiwan. Better there be peace with China on Earth before cooperation in space that could aid its military-space ambitions," concluded Richard Fisher.

"A nasty new slave labor tyrant that pays his mortgage from slave labor just moved into the space neighborhood and he didn't move in for the view," stated a senior Canadian intelligence source.

Clinton Legacy in Space
The Chinese army runs all space activities from its brand new mission control facility located 30 miles northwest of Beijing. The control center is packed with U.S.-made computers supplied during the Clinton administration.

The traitor was never qualified to be a president. He was a communist 15 year old in a mans body.

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