07 December 2018
In an interview with SpaceWatch.Global, Dr. Scott Pace, the Executive Secretary of the U.S. National Space Council run by U.S. Vice President Michael R. Pence, said that the U.S. does not envision any form of space cooperation with China. “China has good capabilities but the political situation is difficult. As a result, trying to build trust in civil space cooperation is very, very challenging... Not so much a competitor but a potential problem is China. China is becoming increasingly active in commercial space activities and at one level that’s a perfectly normal thing to occur. However, Chinese behaviour in other industrial sectors has had a distorting effect on markets. It has affected patterns of innovation and patterns of ownership.”
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