Re: Do foreigners integrate in China?
- From: "rst0wxyz@xxxxxxxxx" <rst0wxyz@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 16 Apr 2007 14:37:28 -0700
On Apr 16, 1:28 am, dragod <dra...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
the problem is that
foreigners in China land are squeezing;
whereas chinese people in Europe etc are not acceptable to the host
countries !!!!!
Read this on China's accomplishment, lecher dog.
TAIPEI, Taiwan - The Fengyun - "Wind and Cloud" - 1-C weather
satellite was a proud worker in China's space program. Launched in May
1999, it provided a wealth of information that scientists used for
forecasting floods, sandstorms and disturbances in space caused by
solar activity.
Now, it has been reduced to a nebula of debris. And that may prove to
be its most lasting legacy.
In January, China blasted the Fengyun 1-C into oblivion with a land-
based anti-satellite missile from its southwestern Xichang spaceport.
It was the first kill of a satellite by a land-based missile ever
conducted by any nation, including the United States and Russia.
The message was hard to miss: China is ready - and increasingly able -
to challenge the U.S. military advantage in space.
"Competition is moving toward the new frontier, space," said Arthur
Ding, a research fellow at Taiwan's National Chengchi University.
To space and military experts, China's success is no surprise - its
military-run space program has taken a great leap forward in recent
years.
It launched its first manned space flight in 2003. A second mission in
2005 put two astronauts into orbit for a week, and a third manned
launch is planned for next year. This year, China plans to launch a
probe that will orbit the moon.
But some see the anti-satellite missile as evidence that China's
program is taking an alarming direction.
"The successful test of a Chinese direct-ascent, anti-satellite weapon
represents a new and dangerous phase of Chinese foreign policy," said
Tom Ehrhard, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and senior fellow with
the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment, a military think
tank.
"Despite official statements about its 'peaceful rise,' China aims to
challenge the internationally recognized sanctity and neutrality of
the 'commons,' those areas like international waters, airspace,
cyberspace, and space itself," he said.
A host of other nations have spy satellites collecting military data,
and the United States also has been considering weapons in space.
Satellites are already the eyes and ears of the U.S. military, used to
guide missiles to their targets, provide detailed information on enemy
positions and movements and make immediate, global communications
possible. The next step, first envisioned during Ronald Reagan's
presidency, would be weapons such as lasers that could be used from
space to destroy or disable enemy satellites or possibly even targets
on the ground.
U.S. military planners have long warned that the satellites they
depend upon are vulnerable. A 2001 report by a commission headed by
Donald Rumsfeld, then defense secretary-designate, said the U.S. is
"an attractive candidate for a space Pearl Harbor" and the country
needed to develop systems to protect its satellites.
China and Russia, which like the U.S., have signed the 1967 treaty
outlawing weapons of mass destruction in space, advocate a complete
ban on anti-satellite and other space weaponry. The Bush
administration, however, blocked a U.N. resolution to that effect in
2005. Beijing and Moscow resubmitted a similar proposal this year.
Beijing says it wants to bring Washington back to the negotiating
table and that its satellite kill was in line with its larger goal of
demilitarizing space.
"China opposes the weaponization of space and any arms race," Foreign
Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said. "The test is not targeted at any
country and will not threaten any country."
Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed after the satellite kill
that Moscow continues to oppose weapons in space and criticized
Washington, not Beijing, for planning space-based weapons, which he
said was the reason behind the Chinese test.
"We must not let the genie out of the bottle," he warned.
The United States and Soviet Union have shot down satellites, too, but
didn't use ground-based missiles. The U.S. did it in 1985 with an air-
launched missile, and the Soviets used a hunter satellite to approach
its target and then fire at it.
Bill Sweetman, an analyst with Jane's Space Systems and Industry, said
the Chinese test does not violate any treaties but deliberately hits
at a sensitive nerve.
"The Chinese are aware of a difference between them and the U.S.; the
U.S., and Western forces in general, are highly dependent on low Earth
orbit assets such as imaging spacecraft and GPS, but the Chinese are
not," he said.
The test, he noted, was also sure to hold Washington's attention for
years to come. The debris from the satellite will continue to float in
space, a hazard to other spacecraft.
"You fill low Earth orbit with high-velocity buckshot," he said.
fyfp...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
About the only thing which the foreigners in China, particularly the
Europeans and native English speakers, are willing to integrate into
China and Chinese culture is taking an afternoon nap. So what is that
big fuss about foreigners not integrating into European or English
speaking host countries?
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