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China doesn't exactly play nice with others. Even other tech companies have almost given up on working with China. When you deal with them, it is a one way street. What would the US get from any partnership with China besides China stealing any technology they could get their hands on?

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If everyone were working together, it wouldn't be stealing. I don't steal someone's software when I fork a project on github, and they don't steal mine when they accept my pull request.

That's like asking what the value of sharing is. China would provide funds, equipment, astronauts, etc that could be partially shared - like with the ISS. Note that the U.S. doesn't have to turn over source code or detailed designs to share stuff. Also, soon, China will develop original technology that others do not yet have (or already has?).

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