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Originally posted by papichulo
See, this is the edge that EU / US have over China. China doesn't have too many satellites up. Not as much as the EU and US at least.
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That's what we said about the former USSR, until they became the first "supposedly backward" country to launch a satallite in sapce(sputnik). By then, we were playing catch up (we eventually did and surpass them).
As CamChick had pointed out, China had been sending more and more satallite into orbit. As for scientific personel, they're catching up.
As for worrying about our current prez irritating China. Don't worry, the Bushes have closer relationship with China than any other powerful political families to date.