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China will win the space raceChina is taking the lead in space exploration Solomone 6 – Ph.D. in Futures Studies (May 2006, Stacey, “China’s Space Program: the great leap upward” Journal of Contemporary China, bs) China has a desire to step forward and become a world contender in the space arena. ‘The Chinese consider the attainment of international standards of sophistication in such areas as aerospace as a triumph in and of itself.’34 Space is a field in which China has the opportunity to take a leading role. With international prestige also comes recognition of China as a space power and possibly a space superpower. For example, China no longer has to rely on the United States for satellite imagery of arable land within China’s borders.35 The Chinese have not forgotten the past (Ba Guo Lian Jun) when, in the 1860s, their country was carved up like a watermelon and distributed amongst the occupying forces of Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Italy, Austria, Hungary, and Japan. The Chinese remain focused on defending China’s borders and the PLA has made every effort to avoid potential future invasions. The PLA believes space will help them accomplish this goal as a way to further build up the national defense of China’s borders. As a bad case scenario, the PLA is concerned with the possibility of Taiwan coming under the US Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) umbrella and of the potential for Taiwan’s acquisition of a theatre missile defense (TMD) system from the United States. The PLA may take action to counter this threat by looking to space as an arena to counter the BMD/TMD system threat. If this were to occur, then the balance of power in Asia could be undermined. Therefore, politico–military influences on China’s space program are quite strong and do continue to play an important role in the future direction of the space program. China has moneyChina can fund their space program Solomone 6 - Ph.D. in Futures Studies ( May 2006, Stacey, “China’s Space Program: the great leap upward” Journal of contemporary china, bs) China’s domestic economic environment also affects the space program. With a secure environment which allows the domestic economy to flourish, China can largely focus on maintaining an economic front with reliance on domestic economic developments. In this vein, funding for the space program has led to spin-off products entering the Chinese domestic market. For example, during his trip around the world 14 times, Yang Liwei drank tea from the ‘Outer Space Cup’, also called the Dislin Cup, manufactured by the Shanghai Wensu Industry Trade Company, Ltd. The cup was designed to withstand extreme temperatures and the rugged environment of space. It is also leak proof which alleviates problems in microgravity. After Yang Liwei’s safe return, the Outer Space Cup hit the domestic market like a flash flood, demonstrating how even low-tech goods from the space program can saturate the domestic market and provide further strength to the overall economy. China’s space program continues to attract many high-tech and low-tech domestic investors. Therefore, as investors become more enmeshed in China’s space program, they are becoming a permanent fixture of the program and, thus, provide a steady monetary supply to the space budget. As a final point of the economy’s influences on the space program, the Chinese people have accepted the space program and its long term benefits for the overall economy. As long as standards of living for the Chinese people are improving, albeit slowly and unequally, they will continue to support the economic aspects and high expenses of the space program. Fusion tech hereThe tech is on its way – fusion creates clean sustainable energy Svoboda 11 -contributing editor for Popular Science magazine. ( 6/21/11, Elizabeth, “Is Fusion Power Finally For Real?” http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/next-generation/is-fusion-power-finally-for-real-2,bs) It sounds impressive—and certainly looks imposing—but society has been taking promises of fusion on faith for more than five decades. If fusion works as proponents claim, it could produce enough clean energy to power the world for hundreds and hundreds of years to come. One of the first hurdles is the tiniest component, the fuel: Hydrogen isotopes, such as deuterium and tritium, adamantly resist uniting, regardless of the amount of heat and steel and funding thrown into the effort. But this past fall, physicists at NIF, based at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, made an important advance with their elaborate building and enormous laser: They fired 121 kilojoules of ultraviolet light into the $3.5 billion facility's target chamber, causing deuterium and tritium nuclei to fuse into helium atoms, releasing 300 trillion high-energy neutrons. Even though NIF and other labs have created fusion before, the achievement brings researchers a step closer to conquering the ultimate challenge: a fusion reaction that produces more energy than is required to start it. AT Fusion CostNew tech will be cost competitive Svoboda 11 -contributing editor for Popular Science magazine. ( 6/21/11, Elizabeth, “Is Fusion Power Finally For Real?” http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/next-generation/is-fusion-power-finally-for-real-2,bs) With its pulsed magnetic field design, the Helion team claims it has found the elusive sweet spot in the fusion landscape: a reliable, cheap reactor that doesn't require fine-tuned optics or complicated plasma confinement. In Helion's reactor, electric currents flowing inside the plasma reverse the direction of a magnetic field that's applied from the outside; the new, closed field that results effectively confines the plasma. "Compared to the tokamak and NIF, Helion's reactor is relatively compact and low-cost," says Richard Milroy, a physicist at the University of Washington who isn't affiliated with Helion. "Utilities don't need to invest billions for the first test reactor to see if things will work out." 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