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China in space.(Between The Lines)
ITEM: Florida Today waxed enthusiastic over Communist China's recent space launch. The "Chinese 'taikonaut' returned safely to Earth ... after a 21-hour orbital flight that put the world's most populous nation into a very exclusive club: It is now one of just three nations to have built their own rocket and sent one of their citizens into space, a technological feat previously accomplished only by Russia and the United States."
The paper, which boasts of "Serving Florida's Space Coast," urged on October 16 that President Bush should "seize the moment and do something we recommended a year ago--invite the Chinese to become partners in NASA's International Space Station program.... That would open the door to other cooperative efforts in the future...."
BETWEEN THE LINES: Florida Today's editorialists would have us believe that China's space efforts are utterly benign. This is not the case. To China's People's Liberation Army, this space mission was Project 921. China is already using help from the U.S. and Russia--stolen, reverse-engineered and otherwise obtained--to advance its program with its obvious military applications.
This launch, as noted in Aviation Week & Space Technology, included a military twin-optic Earth-imaging system, and likely carried an electronic intelligence eavesdropping payload. ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, China in space.(Between The Lines)