China plans to be the dominant power in space by 2049, and doesn't hide the fact. Just ten years from now, according to the general, they will have "nuclear propulsion technology and solar power stations in space." With it, they'll beam clean energy to anyone on earth and be able to disrupt our power grid and paralyze our military anywhere.
China is committed to developing space technologies, which means they're working at a faster pace with a better strategy than we are. Space infrastructure will be a network, and networks "can deliver power, information, or goods from one node to many nodes at a fraction of the increase in cost per customer."
So there will be an economic advantage to being first in space infrastructure, which will lead to global economic dominance in this century and the next.
(cont'd tomorrow)
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