China's Secret Scientific Megaprojects 142
An anonymous reader writes "The Diplomat reports on the 2006 National Medium to Long-term Plan (MLP) for the Development of Science and Technology, China's most ambitious national science and technology plan to date. The MLP consists of sixteen megaprojects — both civilian and military — that serve as 'S&T vanguard programs designed to transform China's science & technology capabilities in areas such as electronics, semiconductors, [and] telecommunications.' Thirteen of the megaprojects are listed in the MLP, while three are classified for national security reasons. The three classified megaprojects are likely the military components of the Shenguang Laser Project (used for thermonuclear weapons), the Beidou 2 Satellite Navigation System, and the Hypersonic Vehicle Technology Project."
We're safe (Score:5, Funny)
When that one completes, the Eschaton shall surely be immanentized.
I hope China crushes the US and the EU (Score:1, Funny)
I am tired of seeing old white men who have a sense of entitlement acting like
they run the world.
The west has had a good run, but it is time for the next wave.
Bring it on.
Re:Lost in translation? (Score:4, Funny)
Ensuring a whole generation of males is rendered incompatible with females.
Male Linuxification Project?
Re:And you think it will be China? (Score:5, Funny)
What makes you think they won't just take everyone else's food, money, and water?
Say what you will (Score:4, Funny)
But while Western governments twiddle their thumbs in their respective senates or congress figuring out how to recover from a devastating decline in the economy with a mounting ecological deficit and can't do anything without gauging public opinion from the largely idiot masses when it comes to any kind of "super-project", China will most likely solve most of the world's problems in energy and climate change.
Surprisingly the country with past human right violations may actually save humanity, while countries that promote the idea they protect human rights sit and let the world rot while their ineffective politicians quibble in their grand ballrooms of democracy.
Of course if China's economy collapses under the weight and pressure of these super-projects, the world is fucked.