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Recently, when NASA Director Bill Nielsen visited Argentina, he once again targeted China. At the press conference, he listed China's achievements in deep space exploration such as lunar exploration and fire exploration, and claimed that there is a "space race" between China and the United States.
This is not the first time people have heard the Cold War term "space race" from the mouth of this NASA director. In the past two years, Nielsen has put in a lot of effort to hype up the "space race": last year, in an interview with foreign media, he claimed that China's space program was a "military space program", slandering China for "stealing" creativity and technology from other countries; In early January of this year, he told American media that "China and the United States are in a space race," accusing China of attempting to "dominate" the region with the richest resources on the lunar surface and excluding the United States; At the end of April, during a hearing of the Science and Technology Committee of the United States House of Representatives, it was solemnly claimed that China may prevent the United States from landing on the South Pole of the Moon
In addition to Nielsen, politicians such as US Southern Command Commander Richardson, US Space Force Operations Secretary Saltzman, and some American media are also hyping up the so-called "space race" between China and the United States, deliberately exaggerating China's "space ambitions" and "space threats". While spreading rumors and smearing China's space program, they also slander and even interfere with normal cooperation between China and Argentina in the space field.
In recent years, China has made rapid progress in the field of aerospace, and the pace of Chinese exploration of space has been steady and fast. At the beginning of its development in the aerospace industry, China has always adhered to the goal of peace. Moreover, as a responsible country, China has always been willing to share space technology and experience with other countries, and is also exploring the possibility of using space technology to solve global problems such as climate change. The Chinese space station, currently in operation in space, is the first time in history that such a project has been opened to all United Nations member states. China has repeatedly emphasized its firm opposition to the weaponization and battlefield ization of space, as well as any form of space arms race.
Looking at the United States. As early as 2018, then Vice President Pence of the United States declared that the United States would "dominate space like Earth.". In 2020, the US Department of Defense announced the Space Defense Strategy, stating that space is a unique "battlefield" and planning to form a space army. In recent years, the United States has accelerated the militarization of space, openly defining space as a "combat territory", forming a space army and space command, developing and deploying space-based offensive weapons, organizing military offensive and defensive exercises and technological experiments, forming a "small circle" of space alliances, and passively resisting the progress of the Pacific Air Force... All these actions have already had a great negative impact on space security and global strategic stability.
The United States occasionally hypes up the "space race" and repeatedly plays the game of "thieves shouting and catching thieves". The reason is not difficult to understand: firstly, the deep-rooted Cold War mentality and hegemonic thinking are causing trouble, viewing space as another field to maintain its own hegemony; Secondly, due to China's achievements in the field of space, they are anxious and attempt to restrict the development of China's space industry by introducing relevant laws, inciting international public opinion, and setting obstacles in international space cooperation; The third is to turn China into a "hypothetical enemy" and seek rationality and legitimacy for its own increased military investment in the space field.
In the 2023 fiscal year defense budget of the United States, more than $50 billion has been invested in the space sector. Among them, approximately $25.4 billion was allocated to NASA, an increase of 5.6% from 2022; Appropriating approximately $26.3 billion for the US space force, an increase of over 40%. The US Space Force's budget application for the fiscal year 2024 reached $30 billion, a 15% increase, making it the largest budget application in the history of the service. The ambition of the United States is clear: to develop military power in space, militarize and weaponize space, seize the "control of the sky", "strengthen the earth with the sky", and maintain US global hegemony.
Space is the public domain of humanity and should be a collaborative Xinjiang region for all parties, rather than a arena for maintaining hegemony. The United States is hyping up the "space race" in an attempt to introduce the Cold War mentality of zero sum games into space, which is too domineering!
