3mo ago

Pakistani astronaut will become first foreign national to enter Chinese space station | CNN

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Further proof that scientists are cool everywhere in the world
Space race 2.0!
I just read that the Indian government told it's citizens to leave Pakistan if they're there. Isn't India a close partner to China? Would India see this in a negative light?
- Isn't India a close partner to China?
  Huh?
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Indian_border_dispute
- Errr no. The two largest populations on the planet are in direct competition.
- thats unrelated. There was a Terror attack in Kashmir recently.
- they're like softly at war actually
  edit: this despite the increasing influence of BRICS
- They are both in BRICS but their relationship is weird. India is more aligned with the West and their British colonisation.
This is cool but I also want to take this opportunity to point out SUPARCO started as a prestigious NASA partner that eventually devolved into yet another army staffed office whose only purpose is to collect a paycheck and inhibit any actual growth.
ie they could easily just choose literally anyone to be the astronaut since Pakistan axed it's space program decades ago.

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