A rocket scientist is warning that Western investment in Communist China helps fuel the Chinese regime’s capabilities to launch an aggressive conflict via space.
The West has long ignored the genocide (500 million victims and counting) and many other crimes perpetrated by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for the cheap labor and cheap production China can provide. Sure, the CCP uses slave labor and abusive working conditions, but think of the profits! That’s all Western companies seem to do, and such selfish foolishness could have deadly results.
The Epoch Times covered comments made during a Congressional roundtable by Tony Bruno, a leading rocket scientist, former Lockheed Martin engineer, and CEO of United Launch Alliance. According to him, the Space Race is back and more dangerous than ever:
“[Bruno] says the United States and its like-minded allies still have an opportunity to cripple China’s rapid weaponization of space, which is reliant on ongoing foreign investment, to prevent a potential war breaking out in space.
However, that window of opportunity is closing…After investing billions of dollars and years of effort, the CCP now has four to five times as many rockets, rocket launch sites, and space personnel as the United States, according to Mr. Bruno.
They have been able to achieve this primarily through technology mostly stolen from the United States, but also due to the vast volume of Western investment dollars that have flowed into China since the 2000s.”
Why has America spent so many decades helping the CCP while the latter openly reviles and threatens us? It’s suicidal.
Bruno said “our fundamental technology remains superior to China” but “they have invested heavily in applying those basic technologies to space weapons and anti-satellite capabilities, and they are deploying those right now at a shockingly rapid pace.” CCP infrastructure does have weaknesses, however, and “a curtailment or cessation of Western investment—which by the way is almost half a trillion dollars a year into China’s economy—could cripple that capability that they have now.”
The CCP has managed to go from a few dozen to almost 700 orbiting spacecraft within a few years’ time, and the CCP really has expressed determination to control certain key parts of space, including celestial bodies (like the Moon). Meanwhile, the CCP has been buying off American officials all the way up to the Biden White House.
“I think it’s important that we also recognize that space simultaneously has become much more important to U.S. national security, while also becoming so much more vulnerable to our adversaries—especially China,” Bruno warned. “It’s no longer a force multiplier for us like it once was; space is now required for basic military effectiveness. Without it, it’s not that our forces are better, it’s that they are essentially impotent.” Unfortunately, while the CCP takes that seriously, America under Joe Biden does not.
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Author: Catherine Salgado
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