The Center believes that such hearings would show this venture which envisions using Soviet Zenit boosters, a-yet-to-be constructed Australian facility at Cape York and American know-how and payloads to undercut U.S. nationalspacepolicy, as well as defense and business interests.
Advocates of this hardy arms control perennial have already seized on the Chinese ASAT test to warn anew that the Bush NationalSpacePolicy is evidence of the dreaded U.S. "unilateralism" that must be stopped lest it precipitate an arms race in space.