RISE OF THE RED DRAGON
ORIGINS & THREAT OF CHINA’S SECRET SPACE PROGRAM
BY MICHAEL E. SALLA, PH.D.
Preface
The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.
— Sun Tsu, The Art of War —
On November 20, 2019, newly retired US Air Force Lieutenant General Steven Kwast publicly declared that China is building a space navy with "battleships and destroyers" that could be used against U.S. military assets in space. Two years earlier, Dr. James Sheehy, the Chief Technology Officer for the Naval Aviation Enterprise, a major U.S. Navy research entity, starkly revealed that China has been developing hybrid air, sea, and spacecraft with advanced electromagnetic systems that will revolutionize the aerospace industry. Such developments would also make fossil fuel propelled craft obsolete. These announcements signal a clear and present danger.
Senior Pentagon officials are openly warning us that China is well on the way to having the capacity to destroy the entire U.S. military and civilian satellite communications grid overnight. Even more concerning is China's efforts to weaponize Artificial Intelligence (Al) in order to gain an asymmetric advantage over its greatest technological rival, the United States. National security analysts are asserting that China's technological and economic development is so rapid that it is on the way to achieving its goal of global hegemony before its target date of 2049. This is the one hundred year anniversary of the cumiation" by West war victor hundred year of a "century of humility held Western powe and the eno the curent historical view heid by the Chine Communist Party (CCP).
Political analyst Dr. Graham Alison, founding Dean of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, cautions over Thucydides Trap", a classically volatiles situation whereby the rising hegemon (China) is destined to clash with the ruling hegemon (USA) for global dominance for decades to come. Other prominent China political analysts such as Dr. Michael Pilsbury, author of The Hundred Year Marathon, and Brigadier General Robert Spalding. author of Stealth War, describe in great detail the miltary, economic, and technological power acquired by China in recent decades. They specifically warn that China is using stealth war strategies developed during its "Period of the Warring States" by the revered military genius Sun Tzu and other military strategists over two millennia ago. China aims to beguile western democracies into a false sense of complacency until it is ready to unleash a lightning bolt series of actions to displace the U.S. as the global hegemon without firing a shot. Pillsbury and Spalding's collective assessments determine that China is unlikely to change its repressive political system, and instead, will export the advantages of a totalitarian system that increasingly uses advanced technologies and Al to control the lives of its citizens, and slowy extend out around the world. How did China progress from an industrial backwater struggling to feed its vast population to a technological and economic juggernaut, challenging U.S. supremacy on Earth and in space?
For an answer, we must turn to the father of Chinas "rocket-propelled" space program, Dr. Tsien Hsue-shen, Ironicaly, Dr. Tsien's brilliant career began on American soil where he rose to prominence and played a founding role first in the launch of U.S. rocket science through the legendary Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). JPL would become one of the leading scientific institutions developing the rockets that powered the NASA space program. By 1950, due to his impressive scientific accomplishments at both JP and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Dr. Tsien attained national celebrity status across America as a pioneering rocket scientist. Major newspapers regularly interviewed him for his ideas on modern rockets and jet-propelled supersonic aircraft that would one day transport civilians from one side of the country to the other in under an hour.
What is not widely known, however, is that Tsien had also helped the US (Army) Air Force study supersonic saucer-shaped aerospace vehicles captured from Nazi Germany and retrieved from UFO crash sites in New Mexico dating from 1947. Not only did Tsien help U.S. scientists investigate the exotic propulsion systems of captured "flying saucer" craft, but he was also directly involved in the (Army) Air Force's development of a decades-long plan for the reverse engineering of the captured supersonic vehicles for a future multifaceted secret space program.
At the height of his national celebrity status and scientific influence, an unthinkable set of events took place. Tsien was declared a communist sympathizer by the FBI, deprived of all his security clearances, and deported back to China after a lengthy legal battle. A stunned Tsien was forced back to his homeland, and he took with him a treasure trove of America's military and technological secrets.
It is no small wonder that upon returning to China in 1955, Dr. Tsien single-handedly helped the People's Liberation Army develop a rocket program that became the foundation for its fledgling nuclear ballistic missile and space program. While helping China develop modern rockets for nuclear missiles and satellite launch systems, Tien simultaneously monitored developments throughout China concerning advanced aerospace technologies similar to what he had studied back in the U.S., some of which came from Nazi Germany. This involved investigating ubiquitous UFO sightings throughout China; learning about the contents of mysterious pyramids in Shaanxi province rumored to possess ancient aviation technologies; recovery of artifacts from an ancient flying saucer crash that occurred 12,000 years ago in the China-Tibet border region; Tibetan-Buddhist records of flying saucers and frequent contacts with their occupants; and the Chinese and Soviet attacks on and resulting capture of a major UFO base in Mongolia in 1980 belonging to an unknown and technologically advanced civilization.
In the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan and China's paramount leader Deng Xiaoping reached wide-sweeping technology assistance agreements that allowed China to receive some of the most advanced U.S. technologies. While Reagan is widely regarded as having reached these agreements to counter the threat posed by the Soviet Union and weaken it in the international arena, Reagan's true purpose lay in responding to a different threat altogether.
It is a matter of the public record that President Reagan made repeated references to the need for greater international cooperation in order to deal with an imminent extraterrestrial threat. The U.S. agreements for technology assistance laid the foundation for China to move forward with its ambitious industrial modernization program. It also paved the way for Chinese scientists to secretly work alongside their American peers to gain an understanding of several captured extraterrestrial craft being studied within the United States. Multiple insiders confirm that Chinese scientists worked at highly classified facilities where captured alien technologies were being reverse engineered for a future joint international secret space program. In return, the U.S. wanted access to China's extensive database of information concerning flying saucers and the advanced ancient technologies retrieved from its mysterious pyramids, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and elsewhere.
A true visionary, Dr. Tsien played a decisive role in developing and implementing a decades-long reverse engineering program for the People's Liberation Army, a necessary step for achieving a grander dream: a secret space program for China using exotic propulsion technologies based on electromagnetics and torsion field physics. Tsien was to reprise a role he had played decades earlier when he helped the USAF develop a strategic plan for the detailed examination of captured supersonic vehicles, which comprised not only V-2 rockets but also German and extraterrestrial flying saucer craft. China's meteoric rise as a major power in space, with a secret military space program that today rivals the far older programs established by the U.S. and Russia, owes its success to Dr. Tsien Hsue-shen.
According to Zhuang Fenggan, who in 1994 was appointed deputy director of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Physics and Mathematics Division: "Tsien started the rocket business from nothing.... He was the top scientist and most authoritative person." Ernest Kuh, a professor of electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, said: "Tsien revolutionized the whole of missile science in China — of military science, for that matter.... He is the leading scientist and engineer in the country".
In the 1990s, China secretly began developing aerospace vehicles using exotic technologies after its rapid economic expansion finally made sufficient resources available for the monumental undertaking that Tsien had long planned. China's conventional rocket propelled scientific space program is an effective cover for the development and deployment of a far more powerful military-run secret space program, which in the short term aims to challenge U.S. dominance in space operations. In the tong term, China intends to supplant the U.S. as the global hegemon and use its vast economic resources to project its military authority and influence deep into our solar system and beyond.