Suicide: Helping China in Space
by Gordon G. Chang • February 4, 2022 at 5:00 am
"[Chris] Hadfield has consistently fronted for cooperation with China in space, never acknowledging how the Chinese Communist Party seeks to dominate Low Earth Orbit and the moon to gain military dominance on Earth to impose a new global hegemony." — Richard Fisher of the International Assessment and Strategy Center to Gatestone, January 2022.
It seems fanciful that Chinese cooperation in space could proceed while the Communist Party maintains its goal of destroying the United States.
"Tackling pandemics" is definitely not an argument for space cooperation with China. Wherever SARS-CoV-2 came from...China's leaders deliberately spread COVID-19 beyond their borders by, among other things, lying about contagiousness and, while locking down their own country, pressuring others to take arrivals from China without restrictions or quarantines.
And because a specific group was targeted—non-Chinese—the crime [deliberately spreading COVID-19 beyond China's borders] constitutes a "genocide" as defined in Article II of the Genocide Convention of 1948. That toll includes 884,000 in the United States.
So how could Washington consider cooperation, on space or in any other area, with a regime that deliberately took the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans?
"We all have our better angels and our worst devils in each of us," Hadfield, who has worked for NASA, correctly notes. The problem is that the worst of humanity is now running the Chinese regime, and cooperation with China, in space or below, is morally and strategically wrong.
"It is completely mind boggling how, after decades of doing deals with China over a variety of issues that only seem to end with the further weakening of the United States and the strengthening of China, the same voices are now calling for massive space cooperation with Beijing, which would only be the world's largest technological transfer in history," Weichert, who produces The Weichert Report, says. "The insanity must stop and America must hold firm against the siren song of cooperation with China in space."
China's militant regime wants the United States to aid its space program, and some, including those in the U.S. space community, are eager to provide assistance. Such cooperation, however, would be extremely disadvantageous for the United States, as it has always been.
On January 28, Beijing issued "China's Space Program: A 2021 Perspective," its fifth white paper on the subject. Listed priorities include moon landings, asteroid defense, and space debris removal.
Beijing also thinks nations should pool efforts in the heavens. "Peaceful exploration, development, and utilization of outer space are rights equally enjoyed by all countries," the paper states. "China calls on all countries to work together to build a global community of shared future and carry out in-depth exchanges and cooperation in outer space on the basis of equality, mutual benefit, peaceful utilization, and inclusive development."
