A huge expendable rocket is planed by a Chinese government hierarchy, while a smaller investment is lined up by a Chinese company to copy the reusable technologies being demonstrated by SpaceX and soon by Blue Origin. I know which *I* think will be the better investment of Chinese dollars, for China, but I know which will keep China’s Politburo members pumping more money into the Chinese space hierarchy as well.

The crucial point is that the CIA only had to stand by and let the hierarchs do what they do naturally. As Napoleon once said, ..”When you see your opponent about to make a mistake, …do not be so rude as to interrupt him!”

I assume you mean to sabotage the Chinese space program, because the last time a country copied an expensive US rocket system, that country went out of business two or three years after its only flight. The Space Shuttle was expensive for the US to operate, and its duplicate, the Buran, was too expensive for the Soviets to fly more than once. Maybe even to fly the one time.

Now we have the even more expensive SLS, and the Chinese are following along. If the past is prologue, then three years after the Chinese first launch (perhaps 2030), that country should also collapse. If the CIA convinced China to foolishly follow in the Soviet Union’s footsteps, then well done them.

And now they have the heaviest lift rocket. What will we do? Imagine if there is another Obama type, a philosophical Marxist / anti American or worse president in office when it all goes down.

What will we do if they have a super heavy lift launcher? We will probably just shrug our shoulders because it isn’t likely to be cost competitive with American companies. If the COTS like approach continues, it wont much matter what China or another Obama tries to do because American, and partner nation, companies will have a strong foothold in space doing a wide variety of activities.

What will we do if they invade Taiwan? I assume we will do whatever we can. Part of China’s planning has been to focus on a quick invasion and delaying American response. They think if they can prevent us from getting there until the bulk of their forces are deployed that we wont do anything.

For all the talk of Trump failing to live up to our obligations, he is the one standing up to NK and finishing business with Iraq and Afghanistan. It was Obama that threw our allies under the bus. Taiwan has more to worry about a future Obama than Trump.

http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/chinas-30year-deadline-to-rule-the-world/news-story/70f62a5bc0e4580b83d5ca89a2479e94

And we essentially paid for it all, what will we do if and when this takes place? And now they have the heaviest lift rocket. What will we do? Imagine if there is another Obama type, a philosophical Marxist / anti American or worse president in office when it all goes down.