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China in Space: Impact on China-US Competition
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Department of International Relations and[ ] (via Public) / Meeting of the BRICS Ministers of Foreign Affairs / International Relations
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BRICS countries welcome extension of New START
The top diplomats also confirmed the commitment to ensure prevention of an arms race in outer space and its weaponization
NEW DELHI, June 1. /TASS/. The BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) welcome the extension of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) by Moscow and Washington, the five countries’ foreign ministers said in a joint statement on Tuesday. The Ministers welcomed, in this regard, the extension of the 2010 Russia-US Treaty on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms and acknowledged its important role in maintaining global security and stability, the statement reads.
The U.S. and Russia are Parting Ways in Space and That s Risky
America’s “unipolar moment” has lingered on in the international distribution of space capabilities, but it will not last forever.
American space partisans could be forgiven for yawning at the recent announcement that the Russian and Chinese space agencies will build a joint lunar research base. The statement included no timeline, and everyone knows that paper plans for space projects are a dime a dozen. While the Russians and Chinese talk, NASA is busy testing rockets and selecting astronauts for its Artemis Program, which is supposed to return Americans to the Moon within the next five years. Yet U.S. space policy is about more than budgets and big engineering problems. It also contains a strong tradition of international cooperation, especially across geopolitical boundaries. Whether or not it comes to fruition, the Sino-Russian plan is the latest sign this tradition is in trouble. A series of new programs, ag
Nobody Wants Rules in Space
As space becomes more crowded, there’s little hope for new international rules to make it safer.
Debris from a crashing Chinese rocket hurtling toward Earth and a Russian projectile-shooting spy satellite are the two examples of a big problem: too few rules governing how nations behave in space. Wednesday on Capitol Hill, lawmakers pressed Biden administration officials on what the United States can do to set some hard boundaries. The answer: The United States wants norms in space, but don’t expect anything legally binding anytime soon.
There are some internationally agreed upon rules for how nations can use space. The 1967 Outer Space Treaty says countries can’t place weapons of mass destruction in space. But the treaty doesn’t prohibit putting other weapons in space, shooting at satellites with anti-satellite rockets, or launching large objects that will come crashing back down to Earth in lots of pieces with unpredictable traject
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