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#186 - Is a U.S.-China Space Race Good for Humanity?

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Why Would Anyone Expect the Chinese to Play Nice?

The number of space actors are also kind of diversifying and technological spin-off benefits from these companies doing different things. I do not believe the new technologies that are coming up essentially from China or Russia or even the US in that sense is necessarily towards peaceful applications of space. Just a couple of months ago, you had the Russians coming out with a new projectile in space. That was in a sense a first case of space weapon being tested there. So in a sense, I think the destructive aspects of new technologies are far more dominant today to me but especially among the three key players, Russia, US and China.

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