> China was excluded from the 420-ton International Space Station mainly due to U.S. legislation barring such cooperation and concerns over the Chinese space program's strong military connections.
This is such BS. All our space programs have strong military connections. We literally created our first spacecrafts from German missile designs.
China will do great without us. They don't need us. They have the money and the talent now. They already got planes, boats, nuclear plants and bombs, satellites...
So the only thing this achieves is decreasing trust and cooperation among powerful countries in the world, and duplicate efforts and resource spendings. We managed to cooperate with Russia. We should try to do the same with China.
I'm going back to listen again to the audio book of "The Martian", at least it will makes me smile and in there, Chinese and American scientists bypass politics to help each others.
This can be good and bad, but it will definitely be different.
I guess it makes sense that they'd be secretive if someone excluded them from the club based on concerns that also apply to existing members.