"Fuel -- China is going nuclear and is planning on being a major player in the energy-provider..."
China is exempt from the Kyoto Protocol. They can burn all the coal they want and no one seems to care. They can build up piles of nuclear waste and no one cares
"Space -- China has an active space program, not the joke that the American space industry has become."
Spaceship One $25 Million US to do it privately. Let NASA handle the deep space stuff. Let Haliburton go after the He3 and fund moon shots http://www.finds-space.org/He3.2000.html
"True, sometimes the ethics of the ... willing to take the risks."
How many tort attorneys does china have, how much do they worry over Microsoft's patents?