While Congress works on an infrastructure bill, a key element is missing: protecting power grids, warns Ambassador Henry Cooper, chairman of the board of missile defense advocacy nonprofit High Frontier.
Cooper, who served in both the Reagan and first Bush administrations, told the John Solomon Reports podcast that China is ahead of the U.S. in space technology and could potentially take out America’s electricity. Unlike during the Cold War, when “the Soviets were very concerned about their inability to compete with our technology” in space, “China has pushed ahead with it, and now we’re playing catch-up through the technologies that we once had,” said Cooper, chief negotiator under Reagan at the Geneva Defense and Space Talks with the Soviet Union and director of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization under Bush. “China has the economic power to really pull off these matters, and we have been ignoring the key technologies now […]
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