New Oberg paper on US/China space cooperation policy

The George Marshall Institute is pleased to announce the release of two
publications by the Marshall Institute under the auspices of our National
Security Space Program. The first is a Policy Outlook by James E. Oberg
given as a presentation at the Workshop on Space, Strategy and China's
Future at the Air War College Center for Asian Strategic Studies on June 27,
2006. The paper examines recent calls for expanding U.S. - Chinese space
cooperation and the need to carefully engineer any future relationship in
this regard.


Describing the short list of potential benefits of such a relationship, he
concludes: "These benefits are nowhere on the scale of grandiose promises
once made for the 'Russian space partnership,' and sometimes still claimed,
falsely or in ignorance, to actually have been achieved, or the fanciful
hope-driven hand-waving of current advocates of a grand new U.S.-Chinese
space partnership. But they could have the advantage of being real, and of
quite possibly coming true, if properly negotiated."



The report also contains a useful review of the U.S. - Russian space
partnership while questioning the necessity of similar U.S.-Chinese
cooperation. Copies of the Policy Outlook are available at:
http://www.marshall.org/pdf/materials/443.pdf.

Jim Oberg wrote:
The George Marshall Institute is pleased to announce the release of two
publications by the Marshall Institute under the auspices of our National
Security Space Program. The first is a Policy Outlook by James E. Oberg
given as a presentation at the Workshop on Space, Strategy and China's
Future at the Air War College Center for Asian Strategic Studies on June 27,
2006. The paper examines recent calls for expanding U.S. - Chinese space
cooperation and the need to carefully engineer any future relationship in
this regard.


Describing the short list of potential benefits of such a relationship, he
concludes: "These benefits are nowhere on the scale of grandiose promises
once made for the 'Russian space partnership,' and sometimes still claimed,
falsely or in ignorance, to actually have been achieved, or the fanciful
hope-driven hand-waving of current advocates of a grand new U.S.-Chinese
space partnership. But they could have the advantage of being real, and of
quite possibly coming true, if properly negotiated."



The report also contains a useful review of the U.S. - Russian space
partnership while questioning the necessity of similar U.S.-Chinese
cooperation. Copies of the Policy Outlook are available at:
http://www.marshall.org/pdf/materials/443.pdf.

One wonders how the US-China relationship WRT space effects the
Russia-China relationship WRT to space.

Eric

"Eric Chomko" wrote
One wonders how the US-China relationship WRT space effects the
Russia-China relationship WRT to space.

Assuming you meant 'affects' instead of 'effects',
it's a good question and a lever for advantageous
bargaining -- on our side.

Good for you. Keep up the good work in covering space!!!!

Danny Deger
www.mobbinggonemad.org