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."
test for free enterprise (Score:5, Insightful)
Hope one of those megaprojects is to clean the air (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:I hope China crushes the US and the EU (Score:5, Insightful)
Is the solution to one group thinking it can "crush" the others having another group "crush" the first, or everybody learning to work with each other, regardless of which plot of land they happened to be born on?
Re:test for free enterprise (Score:4, Insightful)
they were sacrificing everything else in their country to pay for the military
Sounds familiar.
Re:Say what you will (Score:2, Insightful)
In case anyone on Slashdot isn't already quite aware of this, the history of the United States of America since its foundation is basically one long, continuous freefall deeper into a hole of human rights violations.