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Napoleon called China "a sleeping giant", and predicted that "When she awakes she will shake the world".
Soon China will really awake. with 5000 years of superpower status, and living in harmony with its neighbouring countries, only recently in the last 300 years or so, has china been awoken by the west and japs. and now this sleeping giant has started to step up and leap to the future as the superpower in action, and not as the superpower thats sleeping.
China is on its way to becoming the world's next military superpower, thanks to Russian technology and assistance, and could be the first nation to build a moon-based space station.
The Hong Kong Sunday Morning Post reported that "a new colossus may be forming in the east as Russia and China edge toward a symbiotic relationship that could create the world's next economic, military and space-faring superpower."
In signaling the importance of Beijing's relationship with Moscow, Chinese President Hu Jintao used his first trip abroad to visit Russia, during which he signed a number of far-reaching agreements in energy, space engineering, arms supplies and regional security.
"Relations with China constitute the most important factor in Russian foreign-policy strategy," says Gennady Chuffrin, deputy director of Russia's Institute for World Economy and International Relations.
Both nations signed a deal to build a $2.5 billion oil pipeline from Siberia to the Chinese industrial center of Daqing, which is also the location of China's oldest oil fields. That deal also commits China to purchase $150 billion worth of Russian crude oil over 25 years.
Also, Russia is helping advance China's space program, considered by many analysts to be an ambitious effort. China already fulfilled its plans of a first manned space mission in last October and also wants to build the moon's first space station by 2010.
Former Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Robert Walker, the recent chairman of the Commission on the Future of the U.S. Aerospace Industry, wrote earlier this month in the Washington Times that the U.S. could be in danger of losing its space-technology edge to China.
"The Chinese are devoting substantial resources and gearing up to do some things [in space] that we are no longer technologically capable of achieving in the immediate future," he wrote. "Our space technology today could not be used to replicate what we [the U.S.] did 35 years ago [in the moon walk].
"Our strategic thinkers [should] acknowledge the profound impact on the balance of power," he added. "China could leapfrog the world in some important earthbound technologies," such as achieving nuclear fusion, as well as developing options for military-related missions.
A Chinese crew, for example, has been utilizing EVA (extra-vehicular activity) technologies, used in space-based construction work, at the Russian Star City cosmonaut training facility.
China is also advancing a laser weapons program.
But some in Russia worry Moscow could be creating a monster.
"Many Russians worry," said one expert at the Institute of Oriental Studies in Moscow, "that one day the Chinese will just come and take Siberia away from us," the Hong Kong Sunday Morning Post reported.
Russians have won the title of sending the first man to space.
Americans have won the race of sending the first man to the moon.
and only 4 decades later, China has come a long way to be the 3rd nation in the world to send a man to space, ahead of all the european nations as well as technology praised japan.
China has plans to send the first man to Mars, to check its position and status as superpower in the public eye of the global community.
as well as build a permanent space station on the moon. (Kind of like an Embassy, yet on a moon)
Soon China will really awake. with 5000 years of superpower status, and living in harmony with its neighbouring countries, only recently in the last 300 years or so, has china been awoken by the west and japs. and now this sleeping giant has started to step up and leap to the future as the superpower in action, and not as the superpower thats sleeping.
China is on its way to becoming the world's next military superpower, thanks to Russian technology and assistance, and could be the first nation to build a moon-based space station.
The Hong Kong Sunday Morning Post reported that "a new colossus may be forming in the east as Russia and China edge toward a symbiotic relationship that could create the world's next economic, military and space-faring superpower."
In signaling the importance of Beijing's relationship with Moscow, Chinese President Hu Jintao used his first trip abroad to visit Russia, during which he signed a number of far-reaching agreements in energy, space engineering, arms supplies and regional security.
"Relations with China constitute the most important factor in Russian foreign-policy strategy," says Gennady Chuffrin, deputy director of Russia's Institute for World Economy and International Relations.
Both nations signed a deal to build a $2.5 billion oil pipeline from Siberia to the Chinese industrial center of Daqing, which is also the location of China's oldest oil fields. That deal also commits China to purchase $150 billion worth of Russian crude oil over 25 years.
Also, Russia is helping advance China's space program, considered by many analysts to be an ambitious effort. China already fulfilled its plans of a first manned space mission in last October and also wants to build the moon's first space station by 2010.
Former Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Robert Walker, the recent chairman of the Commission on the Future of the U.S. Aerospace Industry, wrote earlier this month in the Washington Times that the U.S. could be in danger of losing its space-technology edge to China.
"The Chinese are devoting substantial resources and gearing up to do some things [in space] that we are no longer technologically capable of achieving in the immediate future," he wrote. "Our space technology today could not be used to replicate what we [the U.S.] did 35 years ago [in the moon walk].
"Our strategic thinkers [should] acknowledge the profound impact on the balance of power," he added. "China could leapfrog the world in some important earthbound technologies," such as achieving nuclear fusion, as well as developing options for military-related missions.
A Chinese crew, for example, has been utilizing EVA (extra-vehicular activity) technologies, used in space-based construction work, at the Russian Star City cosmonaut training facility.
China is also advancing a laser weapons program.
But some in Russia worry Moscow could be creating a monster.
"Many Russians worry," said one expert at the Institute of Oriental Studies in Moscow, "that one day the Chinese will just come and take Siberia away from us," the Hong Kong Sunday Morning Post reported.
Russians have won the title of sending the first man to space.
Americans have won the race of sending the first man to the moon.
and only 4 decades later, China has come a long way to be the 3rd nation in the world to send a man to space, ahead of all the european nations as well as technology praised japan.
China has plans to send the first man to Mars, to check its position and status as superpower in the public eye of the global community.
as well as build a permanent space station on the moon. (Kind of like an Embassy, yet on a moon)
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