jhungary
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The reason why both can't cooperate is politic. NASA themselves think that cooperate with CNSA has the benefit for them too.
How exactly? In which way any cooperation with China would benefit the NASA?
I should also add, even if US see China as enemy, it will not solely ban the cooperation based on political difference. Remember the Apollo-Soyuz mission?? It's a cooperative effort by US and Soviet Union, then enemies in cold war. The different between US-China and US-Soviet Union is simple, US can benefit from working with Soviet Union back in 1970 and in return, the US make great progress with the STS mission. While it also benefit for Russia via the ISS.
I am not saying there won't be any US-China cooperation at all in the future, but I can only see once China can bring something on the table, then there will be a cooperation between US-China like there were three between US-Soviet Union
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