From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Sat Jul 13 2002 - 21:53:26 MDT
wingcat noted:
<<Again, motivation. For all the rhetoric, there is far less perceived
danger of war with China among the voting public than there was with the
USSR. Sure, China makes all kinds of bolsterous public threats - but
then they turn around and try to get special trade status, and try to
compete economically instead of militarily. That kind of thing gets
noticed. And with *that* as the Big Enemy, who cares if they get a moon
base? From this point of view, that might even be a good thing, because
at least our ally will have done it even if we didn't.>>
This is now changing, but fast! Even this week, the PRC is now applying
Russian ordinance to take Taiwan, and to use Russian-built Sovremenniy class,
destroyers to attack any American warships when the PRC attempts to take
Taiwan, by using 300km range YAKHONT and the 120km range MOSKIT missiles.
http://china.jamestown.org/pubs/view/cwe_002_014_004.htm
Is Chinese communist leadership going to have tons of money to spend on a
lunar colony, if its focus is on bring Taiwant under Party control? Unlikely
in my oppy. I am guessing that barring any major advances in technology
(space, bio, or otherwise) the world will be driven by
energy/environment/economic needs. The Islamic War and the Chinese War seem
to be a calling, it these wars have a "no-knock" enforcement
stipulation-despite the angst of many Americans and nearty all Euros.
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