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"The United States will preserve its rights, capabilities, and freedom of action in space... and deny, if necessary, adversaries the use of space capabilities hostile to US national interests," it says.

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The United States, Australia and Canada have criticised China over a weapons test it is said to have carried out in space last week.

The Americans say the Chinese sent up a ballistic missile to destroy an ageing weather satellite.

They say the test went against the spirit of co-operation both countries aspire to in the area of civil space.

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It is absolutely breathtaking. The neo-cons make a point of militarizing space and claiming it as the exclusive military domain of the US, essentially launching an arms race, and then they have the audacity to complain about the Chinese and "spirit of co-operation"? Yeah. Whatever.

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Fuck that shit. I hope the US degenerates into third world conditions, and the sooner the better

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Much of it already has.

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Be careful what you wish for in terms of China surpassing the USA.

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No, I don't think so. Don't get me wrong, I don't think the Chinese would be a better "super power" or "hyperpower" than the Americans. They are material driven and will hurtle us down the path to planetary destruction just as fast as the Ameiricans. The difference is that they will be honest they are doing it for pure greed rather than trying to pretend they are on a mission from God to render us all dead.

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That's what the economic maths look like to me, though I've never seen that prediction in print so I guess I'm wrong.

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I guess we'll find out how things are going around 2050.

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The difference is that they will be honest they are doing it for pure greed rather than trying to pretend they are on a mission from God to render us all dead.

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Originally posted by 500_Apples:
Be careful what you wish for in terms of China surpassing the USA. Robert Mugabe thought it might be a nice idea, and he screwed up his country even wors.

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Mugabe isn't screwing up as much as oppressive IMF policies for collecting third world debt. Some African countries have paid back principle on IMG debt three times over if it wasn't for mafia-style interest rates. Oh yeah, and there is an AIDS epidemic still ravaging parts of Africa.