Friday, January 19, 2007
Concern grows over China's satellite-killing missile test
Reuters Friday: Beijing insisted Friday it was opposed to an arms race in space after Japan and Britain joined a chorus of concern over a satellite-killing missile test by China -- the first known experiment of its type in more than 20 years.
The United States says China used a ground-based ballistic missile to shoot apart an aging weather satellite on January 11, scattering debris that could damage other satellites and raising risks of escalating military rivalry in outer space.
IMO: I have already expressed sorrow in this blog over the thousands of years of repression and mistreatment of the Chinese people, both by their own authorities and by other countries like the UK and Japan. This does not however excuse the current actions though one could discountenance them as being caused by naivety and innocence. This certainly does not seem to be a total excuse and the continuing oppression of minorities in China by the present right wing dictatorship is not good for China. China has many internal problems, the great and increasing shortage of cheap water in North China possibly being one of the worst which is widely known outside China and like it or not, even though the USA may be on the way down, massive retaliation to the current overall bad Chinese practices must be forthcoming, perhaps from the US or Japan, but inexorably in the long term by way of environmental effects..
The United States says China used a ground-based ballistic missile to shoot apart an aging weather satellite on January 11, scattering debris that could damage other satellites and raising risks of escalating military rivalry in outer space.
IMO: I have already expressed sorrow in this blog over the thousands of years of repression and mistreatment of the Chinese people, both by their own authorities and by other countries like the UK and Japan. This does not however excuse the current actions though one could discountenance them as being caused by naivety and innocence. This certainly does not seem to be a total excuse and the continuing oppression of minorities in China by the present right wing dictatorship is not good for China. China has many internal problems, the great and increasing shortage of cheap water in North China possibly being one of the worst which is widely known outside China and like it or not, even though the USA may be on the way down, massive retaliation to the current overall bad Chinese practices must be forthcoming, perhaps from the US or Japan, but inexorably in the long term by way of environmental effects..
# posted by uv : 10:53 PM
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