The Future Is Ours to Lose

By Stewart Atkinson

By 2045, China plans on being the leading space power in the world. Yes, THE leading power. And China plans to use its space mastery to boost its position as the center of a “new world order.” A world order in which the “bully,” the United States, is sidelined. And in which China reigns supreme.

In fact, China plans on owning the solar system and being on its way to populating the universe. Populating the heavenly bodies and the spaces beyond them with the Chinese race, the Han. All of that has been written into the Chinese constitution and into another official source code, what Xi Jinping calls “the Chinese dream.”

Should that be a big deal to the US, and to you and me?

Yes. China could easily achieve its space dream. Why? Because America is currently in the lead in space but is sabotaging itself. Take, for example, our timeline for space exploration, which looks like a sketch for a hobby compared to China’s deadly serious blueprint.

Fortunately, there are organizations of very smart people who think deeply about these issues. One of these organizations is a group of thinkers called the Space Development…