Space Report Touts Tech, Tiptoes Around Military Uses -- Wall Street Journal
Since China shocked the world by obliterating one of its aging weather satellites with a missile in 2007, it has struggled to reassure other countries of its peaceful intentions in space.
That’s the background to a State Council white paper, released on Thursday, that reveals ambitious plans for space exploration over the next five years. As a follow-up to the last such report in 2006, it is partly meant to allay foreign concerns that China’s space program is driven by military calculations.
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My Comment: Like America's space program in the beginning, the beneficiary of China's space program will be the military.