A lobbying window of opportunity

> as exciting as space development is, i'd like to think we could
> achieve it without resorting to using cheap tabloid politics to
> incite nationalism and xenophobia.

And the xenoPHILE agress with you.

Now, if a Chinese space program can scare the US into getting the
space program back onto the track of GETTING INTO SPACE, then that is
a good thing.

Xenophile (who was expecting the Japanese to be the ones to scare the
US... konban wa!)