![]() ![]() space power, its obsession with national prestige, and how manned spaceflight is viewed as a crucial element to sustain the legitimacy of the Communist Party. Chapter 3 describes China's anxieties about U.S. ![]() and China are examined, showing how their intentions are increasingly leading to the military integration of space technologies. The national security objectives of the U.S. technological and commercial interests in space and their implications in fuelling a potential space race. The book opens with an analysis of the short fifteen-year history of the China National Space Administration and its long list of accomplishments. Until China successfully launched taikonauts into orbit, China's space program had attracted little international attention. ![]() United States offers a glimpse of future Chinese aspirations in space and the politico-militaristic implications of a looming space race, and explains why an interplanetary spaceship called the Tsien Hsue Shen might one day travel to the outer planets. The repercussions of this ideology already extend far beyond Washington. The world's most populous nation views space as an asset, not only from a technological and commercial perspective, but also from a political and militaristic one. ![]()
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