Bush offers China cooperation on space exploration

[Ulhas Joglekar <joglekarulhas@xxxxxxxx>]

Reuters.com

Bush offers China cooperation on space exploration
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Thu Apr 20, 2006

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush offered Chinese President Hu 
Jintao on Thursday greater U.S. cooperation on space exploration and planned 
to send the head of NASA to China later this year.

Bush was "trying to deepen the relationship between our two societies and 
our two cultures," said Dennis Wilder, an Asia specialist at the White House 
national security council.

"There are some things that the Chinese also have in terms of sensor 
technologies and information that we are interested in, in terms of global 
climate and other issues," Wilder said.

NASA Administrator Michael Griffin would probably go to China later this 
year "to begin to consult on the subject of space exploration and where we 
might have common interests and where we might begin to work together as the 
two nations on the Earth with the most ambitious space programs in the 21st 
century," Wilder said.

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