Our understanding of what space technologies can do and where they are headed is heavily conditioned by political realities around us. These realities are worth gauging in East Asia, where the dominant powers are hostage to simple-minded views especially in the United States. China is viewed as a strategic competitor and Japan as a docile ally. The simplicity is misleading.

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