China drafting space law


BEIJING (Reuters) - China is drafting laws governing outer space, state media on Monday quoted the country's first astronaut as saying at a time when Beijing's space drive is drawing growing international concern.
The China News Service cited Yang Liwei, who became China's first man in space in 2003, as saying the laws would address how to "effectively protect the space environment, reduce or eradicate fragments in space and expand international cooperation."
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Thoughts, anyone? (http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2007-06-11T023115Z_01_PEK157511_RTRUKOC_0_US-CHINA-SPACE.xml)

:rant:

There is already a framework of treaties that regulate space activities. These are well described in this Wikipedia article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_law

China is certainly free to make laws governing Chinese activities in space, however no country can claim any portion of space as their territory under the treaty framework negotiated internationally. Therefore any law passed by China could apply only to Chinese activities, just as a law passed by the United States could not be applied to Chinese activities.

How could such treaties be policed.

How could such treaties be policed.
the same way any other terrestrial treaty is-not very well.

Yeah.
Me dont trust those gringos seenyor.

The China News Service cited Yang Liwei, who became China's first man in space in 2003, as saying the laws would address how to "effectively protect the space environment, reduce or eradicate fragments in space and expand international cooperation."
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Thoughts, anyone? (http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2007-06-11T023115Z_01_PEK157511_RTRUKOC_0_US-CHINA-SPACE.xml)

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In January, China launched a ground-based ballistic missile to pulverize one of its own weather satellites about 537 miles above the Earth in a demonstration of its ability to attack low-orbit satellites.
Beijing acknowledged the act only after 12 days of official silence. Experts have said fragments from the destroyed satellite are a danger to other space traffic.
China is only the third country to send a man into space after the former Soviet Union and United States, and it launched a second manned space flight in 2005. It has plans to send a manned craft to the moon.


Well, that's pretty fucked up. The guys bitching about reducing fragments in our space, then to prove a point, they pulverize a satellite and endanger the space traffic.
Can someone say 'Dee dee dee?'

The US keeps pushing that they have the right to militarize space.

I always though if space is militarized theres a fairly simple solution. Simply make some 'shrapnel rockets' that go off in orbit. Create so much debris that any and all satalites will be destroyed.

how would the shrapnel get past the force fields?

How could such treaties be policed.

How could any treaties be policed? There ARE international courts afterall.

How could any treaties be policed? There ARE international courts afterall.

I think the UN makes 'em and pats themselves on the back then the US enforces them and gets berated by the UN for doing so.

I think the UN makes 'em and pats themselves on the back then the US enforces them and gets berated by the UN for doing so.
The UN is partly controlled by the US remember.

not equivelant to the ammount of money we put into it and its failed programs. We should just admit the UN is worthless and start a new world body.

Which would you prefer.
One ran by the US or one controlled by the US.

one that the US was not a part of

too late to wash your hands and walk away now my friend.

no it isnt. pull all funding and boot the sorry ass UN over to France where they belong, with all the other euro sissys.

no it isnt. pull all funding and boot the sorry ass UN over to France where they belong, with all the other euro sissys.

Put it in the Hague, right along with the world court.

no it isnt. pull all funding and boot the sorry ass UN over to France where they belong, with all the other euro sissys.
The euro sissys,
You must be another one of these macho Americans who needs a gun in one
hand and his dick in his other.
War and Glory days are over-get used to it.

We have John Wayne... what does Europe have?

Enough said.

We have John Wayne... what does Europe have?

Enough said.
Wayne has never been in a good movie or given a decent performance.

Wayne has never been in a good movie or given a decent performance.

Are you questioning the man of all men, pilgrim?

Are you questioning the man of all men, pilgrim?
A braindead paraplegic would've made a better star of those movies than he did.

Bruce Campbell is the man of all men, anyway.

The euro sissys,
You must be another one of these macho Americans who needs a gun in one
hand and his dick in his other.
War and Glory days are over-get used to it.

actually I use both hands, I have a big gun :D

We have John Wayne... what does Europe have?


Mr. Bean?

actually I use both hands, I have a big gun :D

No fun taking a cap pistol to a hand artillery contest.