In 2007, Chinese vice-minister of science and technology Li Xueyong said that China would like to participate in the international space station (ISS) program. In 2010, European Space Agency(ESA) Director-General Jean-Jacques Dordain stated his agency was ready to propose to the other 4 partners that China be invited to join the partnership. While ESA is open to China's inclusion, the US is against it. US concerns over the transfer of technology that could be used for military purposes.
Nowadays, China is the third nation(after the US and Russia), who successfully launched manned space program. If there's any military usable technology, China must have learned it already. Space is not the space of US. And it does not make sense to keep blocking China's participation to the ISS program.
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