Killing Man From Space is Inevitable: China

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From Telegraph.co.uk and the front page of DTV:

Space arms race inevitable says Chinese commander
An arms race in space is an "historical inevitability", a senior Chinese air force commander has warned, marking an apparent shift in Beijing's opposition to weaponising outer space.

By Peter Foster in Beijing
Published: 12:56PM GMT 02 Nov 2009

China, which hopes to put a man on the moon by 2020, has long stated that it supported the peaceful uses of outer space and opposed the introduction of weapons there.

However Xu Qiliang, a senior Chinese air force commander, said it was imperative for the PLA air force to develop offensive and defensive operations in outer space.

"As far as the revolution in military affairs is concerned, the competition between military forces is moving towards outer space," he told the People's Liberation Army Daily in an interview to mark last month's 60th Anniversary of Communist China, "this is a historical inevitability and a development that cannot be turned back."

Although Beijing has also sought to establish an international treaty to control the deployment of weapons in space, China surprised the world in 2007 when it shot down one of its own weather satellites in a test seen by many, including the United States, as a possible trigger of an arms race in space.

"The PLA air force must establish in a timely manner the concepts of space security, space interests and space development," Mr Xu added, "We must build an outer space force that conforms with the needs of our nation's development (and) the demands of the development of the space age."

Superiority in outer space can give a nation control over war zones both on land and at sea, while also offering a strategic advantage, Xu said, noting that such dominance was necessary to safeguard the nation.

"Only power can protect peace," the 59-year-old commander added.

China is currently in the process of rapidly modernising its armed forces, investigating the construction hardware such as aircraft carriers as well as cyber warfare techniques that could paralyse enemy's command and control systems.

Last year's annual Pentagon report to the US Congress warned that Chinese militarisation was changing the balance of power in the Asia-Pacific region.

China, however, dismisses such talk as alarmist and says that its rise will be peaceful. China currently spends 1.4 per cent of GDP on its armed forces, compared with two per cent in Britain and France and four per cent in the United States.

It seems that a great many of the articles and information brought to Disclose.tv pass through our scopes on average, within the day. Here today for us to all protest electronically, and burried in the millions of other threads held DTVs database. And like all story's or concerns that I post here, I can only hope that enough people will notice it and take action.

Weapons may very well be needed in space, should our future explorations lead us through the path of hostile life forms, however this is not even remotely what is being stated by Xu Qiliang. The mere suggestion that "Superiority in outer space can give a nation control over war zones both on land and at sea, while also offering a strategic advantage," should send a chill down anyone's spine.

At current, when Russia or China launches a missile from land, there is an undoubted fear to be had. However, with a land launch, we will know it is coming. To some degree we have the opportunity to see the missile before it strikes. The exact opposite is true of a space based missile launch. It would be nearly impossible to detect where the missile is coming from, and we would not see it until a few seconds before it was to strike.

Some believe we are star children. That our true home is not only Earth, but also space and the universe. How can anyone justify the use of weapons launched from space against Earth? I've somewhat made my opinions on space and our space future known on this site, and I believe that humans have a bright golden future in space, as a unified human front where war is waged against the front lines of the unknown and not against each other.

But, as I'm sure most of the sheep will remind me, we are powerless to do anything about it. And maybe we are powerless against this; perhaps how quick this article disappears into oblivion will indicate just how powerless we are making ourselves.

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I am with you man. But I would not be so afraid of the future. There have always been weapons when there were people.

And he is kind of right. When others are making space programs, China must simply follow them so the next Genghis Khan is not from Russia or USA.