China is also looking to foster closer relationships with the space programs of other nations, he said. He invited the representatives of the world's space agencies to come visit China's space facilities "to discuss cooperation with our experts in the field of manned space and together to promote the development and the progress of space technology."
Sure - in other word, in order
for us to surpass Russia and US in space we need 'the world' to make its technology available to us so we can steal it [jesus, I'm cynical when it comes to China - hey, I'm no sucker] And why the hell does China plan to build it's own space station as this same article purports? There's already an
international space station up there which would seem to fall in line with their putative communitarian agenda - but of course they want an independent presence in space for the same reason the Soviet Union did and it has absolutely nothing at all to do with peaceful
cooperation.
