{"id":431966,"date":"2010-03-15T22:20:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T02:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f95\/chinese-women-space-40903\/"},"modified":"2010-03-15T22:20:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T02:20:48","slug":"chinese-women-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/431966","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Women in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On 03.15.10 11:00 AM posted by Dean Cheng<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/China-space-1003041.jpg\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/China-space-1003041.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even as the  US  continues to debate how it will sustain a manned presence in space,  China  made yet another major announcement about *its manned space program. In an  announcement from the Chinese Ministry of Defense, it was declared *that the  newest class of Chinese astronauts included two women. Unlike their male  counterparts, these are drawn from the ranks of  China\u0092s  transport aircraft pilots (<a href=\"http:\/\/eng.mod.gov.cn\/DefenseNews\/2010-03\/11\/content_4130823.htm\" >presumably  because the People\u0092s Liberation Army Air Force [PLAAF] has no female fighter  pilots<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The announcement serves as a reminder, not only that  China\u0092s  interest in manned space is unabated, but that its manned space program is a  function of the military, not civilian, authorities. This would suggest that the  PLA retains its interest in space despite the announcement that  China\u0092s  defense budget would be rising by \u0093only\u0094 7.5%, the first single-digit rise in  over a decade.<\/p>\n<p>It would also suggest that the announcement that  China\u0092s  new spacelab (Tiangong-1) would be delayed by a year is more likely a refection  of actual technical difficulties than budgetary concerns. During these delays,  the United  States  should step up its efforts and use the additional time  wisely.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/03\/15\/chinese-women-in-space\/\" >http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/03\/15\/&#8230;omen-in-space\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 03.15.10 11:00 AM posted by Dean Cheng Even as the US continues to debate how it will sustain a manned presence in space, China made yet another major announcement about *its manned space program. In an announcement from the Chinese Ministry of Defense, it was declared *that the newest class of Chinese astronauts included [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}