China’s militant regime wants the United States to aid its space program, and some, including those in the U.S. space community, are eager to provide assistance. Such cooperation, however, would be extremely disadvantageous for the United States, as it has always been.
Beijing also thinks nations should pool efforts in the heavens.
“Peaceful exploration, development, and utilization of outer space are rights equally enjoyed by all countries,” the paper states. “China calls on all countries to work together to build a global community of shared future and carry out in-depth exchanges and cooperation in outer space on the basis of equality, mutual benefit, peaceful utilization, and inclusive development.”
Wu mentioned that China and Russia “will jointly launch the international lunar scientific research station plan—which is a major long-term international scientific cooperation project.” Yet Beijing is looking beyond its traditional partner.
“We welcome the participation of all interested countries, international organizations, and scientists and engineers,” he said.
The Chinese appeal for help is appealing to many.
“Hadfield has consistently fronted for cooperation with China in space, never acknowledging how the Chinese Communist Party seeks to dominate Low Earth Orbit and the moon to gain military dominance on Earth to impose a new global hegemony,” Richard Fisher, of the International Assessment and Strategy Center, told Gatestone.
“Has Hatfield ever acknowledged that ‘peace in space’ has never preceded ‘peace on Earth’? Peaceful and expansive U.S.–Russia space cooperation was only possible after the collapse of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.”
Fisher was one of the first Americans to warn of China’s military ambitions.
It seems fanciful that Chinese cooperation in space could proceed while the Communist Party maintains its goal of destroying the United States. Nonetheless, many want to repeal the Wolf Amendment, enacted in 2011, which prohibits NASA from working with China.
The utopians, however, are having a few problems these days, thanks to Beijing. Take David Dodwell, an opinion columnist in Hong Kong.
“Tackling pandemics” is definitely not an argument for space cooperation with China. Wherever SARS-CoV-2 came from—whether or not it came from a Chinese biological weapons lab—China’s leaders deliberately spread COVID-19 beyond their borders by, among other things, lying about contagiousness and, while locking down their own country, pressuring others to take arrivals from China without restrictions or quarantines.
That means the nearly 5.7 million people who perished from this disease outside China were murdered. And because a specific group was targeted—non-Chinese—the crime constitutes a “genocide” as defined in Article II of the Genocide Convention of 1948. That toll includes 884,000 in the United States.
So how could Washington consider cooperation, on space or in any other area, with a regime that deliberately took the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans?
Americans and others from democracies find it hard to comprehend the maliciousness of China’s Communist Party.
“We all have our better angels and our worst devils in each of us,” Hadfield, who has worked for NASA, correctly notes.
The problem is that the worst of humanity is now running the Chinese regime, and cooperation with China, in space or below, is morally and strategically wrong.