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Unless you're making a talking-head argument about China owning the US treasury, the only way the US "funded" this is via the publicly available information on
by nknight 15y ago
Unless you're making a talking-head argument about China owning the US treasury, the only way the US "funded" this is via the publicly available information on NASA's work, in which case you have to mention the Soviet Union/Russia, too.
- ericd 15y agoI think he's referring to China's stealing of every piece of foreign technology that they can get their hands on.
- nknight 15y agoAh, the other version of China-as-a-bogeyman -- "technology" being "stolen". Hint: The only reason China gets special attention is it's not a member of Club West. Funny how quickly stories of industrial espionage by NATO members drops out of the media -- if it ever appears in the first place.
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- Volpe 15y agoCare to provide relevant citations for space technology that china stole? Or is this just belligerent racism?
- wisty 15y agoWell, they must have gotten the idea of rockets from somewhere, for starters (/sarcasm)
- ericd 15y agoI was saying that I think that's what the parent is talking about. There have been many examples of cloned tech in China's recent history, though, so I'm not sure where your outrage is coming from. I didn't say anything about Chinese people as a race.
- Selvik 15y agoWhy would they not steal technology? It's profitable. It's good for the PRC elite, it's good for the chinese people. The only losers --and in the space exploration game I'm not sure there are any-- are foreign IP owners or states.
- rsynnott 15y agoChina's current space technology is far more similar to Soviet and Russian work than American work.
- CamperBob 15y agoFellow named von Braun in the back of the room seems agitated, like he wants to say something but can't talk himself into making a scene.
- sp332 15y agoThey don't need to steal the tech. They can just send their students to our universities and we'll teach it to them. I think that's how they developed their nuclear technology - they just went to MIT and we showed them how it was done.