Gordon Chang: Cooperation With China on Space Will Not Work
The Long March 3B rocket carrying the Tiantong 1-02 satellite launching from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Xichang in southwestern China's Sichuan province on Nov. 12, 2020. (STR/AFP via Getty Images)
By Sandy Fitzgerald | Friday, 25 December 2020 01:56 PM
Advisers to Joe Biden have been encouraging him to work with China on space exploration, according to reports, but such coordination has never worked out for the United States in the past and the move could prove dangerous because "China is trying to militarize space," foreign affairs and China expert Gordon Chang said Friday.
"They are ahead in certain critical technologies," Chang told Fox News' "America's Newsroom." "They will try to exclude other nations from getting to the moon. That you can learn from the comments of the head of China's lunar exploration program. They want to keep everybody else out. That is why they want to get there first."
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