Think about it
A significant factor in Ronald Reagan's successful destabilization of the ex-Soviet Union was the U.S.S.R.'s inability to maintain both the arms race and its internal economy in the face of Reagan's dramatic expansion of military spending. As a result of the economic…plan…we've been suffereing under, and past and projected war and reconstruction expenditures , I'm not at all sure we could do that to China.
It would be the greatest possible irony if our capitalist system were destabilized by China by essentially the same process that Reagan destabilized the Soviet Union's system.
A US-China space race could mean trouble
By Toshi Yoshihara, 10/16/2003
WITH TUESDAY'S successful launch of the Shenzhou 5 spacecraft, China has become the third nation, behind the United States and the former Soviet Union, to place a human into the Earth's orbit. Not surprisingly, the Chinese government is now engaged in a full-court press to tout this dramatic event as a major scientific and engineering achievement, complete with full-color photos and large front-page stories in scores of newspapers around the country.
…China enjoys the resources and boasts the political will to invest in space over the long term. As such, even if China does not pose a credible threat to the United States, perceptions that the Chinese may eventually challenge US space supremacy could spur Washington to view Beijing as a future rival in space.
In other words, Chinese apprehensions of US space dominance might easily be reciprocated.
