Am I the only one that feels that China is helping in motivating the world to put efforts into Space Exploration?
Good job on China for pulling this off and helping Mankind.
Good job on China for pulling this off and helping Mankind.
The American space program has been doomed for so long that it's hard to imagine a single speech would turn anyone around.
More generally, this outlook is part of why the TTP is staggeringly unpopular -- developing a soft power base in Asia, independent of China, simply isn't worth sacrificing _anything_, no matter how small, in the eyes of both the American public and it's current major party nominees.
So did the first space race, and it went pretty well, and cooperation between the US and Russia still took place eventually.
There really shouldn't be an use vs. them with China. That's incredibly toxic thinking (trying to create an new Cold War)
I never said there should be. All I said is that nationalism and fearmongering did not prevent the first space race from going well, and did not prevent eventual easing of tensions.