Rep. Frank Lucas Warns of Risk Posed by Chinese Launch to the Moon
WASHINGTON (Frank Lucas PR) — Today, House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Ranking Member Frank Lucas emphasized the risk the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) poses to American international leadership in science and technology following the launch of the CCP’s Chang’e-5 mission to the Moon.
“The launch of Chang’e-5 is a significant step by China towards their goal of establishing a long-term presence on the Moon. The nation that leads in space will dictate the rules of the road for future technological development and exploration, and the influence of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in the CCP’s space program makes China a particularly irresponsible and dangerous candidate. Advancements by the CCP also jeopardize American international competitiveness in science and technology. We can no longer take America’s leadership in space for granted and must continue supporting the men and women of the American space program aspiring to launch crewed missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.”
The China Task Force Report, an actionable plan to respond to the Chinese Communist Party’s growing influence, discusses China’s plans for space exploration and recommends that the U.S. ensure its leadership in the commercial space sector and maintain its commitment to human exploration of space:
“While the U.S. views space exploration as a way to expand human knowledge, create new technologies, and discover new phenomena, the CCP seeks to establish leadership in space for the purpose of keeping the CCP in power and as a show of economic and national security strength,” the Report reads. “Unlike the U.S., which has a civilian agency (NASA) overseeing space exploration, the PLA manages the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) space program. The CCP dedicates high-level attention and funding for space while also aggressively attempting to acquire U.S. space startup companies and technology, both through legitimate means and coercion and theft.
“If the PRC succeeds in its efforts to launch its first long-term space station module in 2022, it will have matched the U.S.’ nearly 40-year progression from first human spaceflight to first space station module in less than 20 years,” the report continues. The CCP is vocal about plans to establish a human base on the Moon. The U.S. should be concerned about the technological innovations and leadership role for the CCP that could come from missions crewed by PRC-nationals to the Moon.”
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Space race! *throws pie*
Well if the US hadn’t wasted billions on Constellation and SLS…. *shrugs*
One of the major problems being that the Red Peril argument will be used to waste even more on those dead ends.
If you want to turn this process off, you have to use the governmental crowbar to separate the American business sector from Chinese Communist industrial policy. Having the American business sector shunt double digit percentages of American domestic spending in the form of consumer consumption, and American business consumption of Chinese manufacturing, while at the same time trying to out spend them in military and space expenditures is a process the US is ensured to lose. As long as the American business sector is dependent on the Chinese as the source of their fortunes, America is going to lose the race between the US and China.
Hopefully the Biden Administration will keep the pressure on China, especially in terms of high tariffs on their goods.
He talks a good game of building in the US for government funded programs and building alliances to contain China. Let’s see. Belt and Road is just an excellent deal for the banana republics they’re operating in. I mean that in a good a bad way. Yes they work with corruption and undermine the local economies, but they are helping. The Chinese are very British in this way. I’m doubtful the US has the policy where with all to pull this kind of game out. We’ve become glorified arms merchants, and little else. Everything we do is individual and almost nothing is integrated so it’s hard for us to create synergies of policy and industry the way the Chinese do. I think playing the game at that level is going to take us a long time to work out.
During his “campaign,” Biden managed to be on both sides of most issues to the extent he managed to speak intelligibly at all. Should he succeed in usurping power, anything he does that benefits the U.S. will be strictly accidental.
Stop being stupid. You lost the election. Stop being a sore loser.
The Presidential election was not lost, it was clearly stolen. I’m not a sore loser, I’m a sore winner.
Bill Barr just said you’re a sore loser.
That seems wildly unlikely. Biden has already demonstrated an eager willingness to be bought by the Chinese. A less likely champion of American interests vs. those of China would be difficult to imagine.
The transfer of U.S. manufacturing to China isn’t something that U.S. business management affirmatively decided to do of its own volition. It was, rather, the inevitable result of asymmetrically enforced “free trade” agreements and sky-high U.S. corporate taxes. These perverse incentives were reversed under Trump. The would-be usurper Biden has already stated he intends to undo Trump’s tax and trade policy if he succeeds in taking power. Let us sincerely hope he succeeds in doing neither.
Hhahahaha. No, you are wrong! The US business sector did exactly what their system demands of them. Maximize profits by transferring the troublesome workshop to a more profitable location. THAT’s what they did and it was successful for them for a while. Until the enterprise was taken away from them by the Chinese business sector that things more in the long term than their American counterparts. You’re dreaming that your vaunted free enterprise has a systemic weak spot that the Chinese were able to exploit, just as you’re fooling yourself that your beloved leader Donald Trump did not lose the election. But he did, he’s a loser, and you’re being dragged along into a fiction that’s making a fool of yourself. Did you see any of those judge rulings? You really should. And look what’s happening at the appeals level. Don’t let yourself get dragged along in this fiction, you’re too smart for that crowd.
Chinese coolie labor was cheap in the 19th century too. Why didn’t U.S. manufacturers skip all the labor strife in what’s now the Rust Belt and decamp to China then? Two answers. No corporate income tax and no duty-free importation from most foreign sources. So even with Joe Hill and the Wobblies to put up with, it was still cheaper to do make things here. Business responds to incentives. The Democrats have provided entirely perverse ones for nearly three decades with that reversing only under Trump.
Trump did not lose the election, it was obviously and flagrantly stolen. Republican state legislators and numerous judges are now being found deficient in backbone even when the evidence is massive and inexplicable except via fraud and other chicanery on a huge scale. This timidity is almost certainly a product of the crude threats that Democrats now seem willing to issue without even a pretense of caution. The two Republican election officials in Michigan who wobbled this way and that over certification of Wayne County results, for instance, were told in open meetings “We know where your kids go to school.” Charming.
If Trump fails to prevail this time, the effort will still have been valuable if only to illustrate just where the rot is and how deeply embedded. That will be needful knowledge for those who aim to counteract the flagrantly extra-constitutional lawlessness into which Democrat-controlled jurisdictions have fallen.
Even if Trump is, in the end, denied his rightful second term, the idea that “this is over” is farcical.
“Chinese coolie labor was cheap in the 19th century too. Why didn’t U.S. manufacturers skip all the labor strife in what’s now the Rust Belt and decamp to China then?”
Three words. The British Empire.
“Trump did not lose the election, it was obviously and flagrantly stolen”
Mr Eagleson.
“Free, fair elections are the lifeblood of our democracy. Charges of unfairness are serious. But calling an election unfair does not make it so”
The Hon Judge Stephanos Bibas
3rd Circuit US Court of Appeals
Appointed by pres Donald J Trump.
Cowardice in the face of the nation’s enemies is not, unfortunately, uncommon in either the judiciary nor legislative spheres.
Hhahhahah. No you’re just being stupid now. Those are people working the case looking at the evidence as presented and throwing it out. Stop making a fool of yourself. You’re going to have all this thrown in your face as it just keeps getting worse. Admit you’re wrong before you keep digging deeper.
We could of reached an understanding with the Majority of Chinese years ago, but the Hubris in the Bush/Cheney Administration. Keep. Maybe even Mister Peace Prize could of worked some magic with his “ChangeBelieve”. Now, we’re committed. I sincerely hope Biden isn’t allowed to start pushing the Global Pipe Dreams again.
Unfortunately, pipe dreams are pretty much what the Democratic Party has been all about for some time now.