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Originally Posted by Alonsua
Thank you. As previously exposed the spaceport route has been picked up as the way to go, with the support and compliance of the United States. It would be worthy to think about what would the other countries do about it, if they would be up for negotiations or they would jump to wage war immediately.
*If the war is declared I guess Administration, Intelligence Analysis, Strategy and Tactics wont hurt.
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If the space station on Earth is in US territory, then I suspect everybody will have doubts about who is the puppet and who the puppeteer; in any case, the formal position of other countries will be: "This is a US corporation, this is a project devised by and belonging to the USA".
That said, don't think of war and peace as a binary option. If the space station is launched by the USA from a base on US territory and is officially owned by a US corporation, the Chinese won't declare war (that is, unless the USA or the US corporation announce they are stationing WMDs up there). However, a new space race will be on. And as the Chinese launch the parts for their own permanent orbital station, it might very well happen that an accident with one of their missiles accidentally places a sizable unpassivated rocket stage on a collision course with the US (or US corporation's) station. Kinetic energy damage may well be terminal for any structure involved when the combined speed is around 30,000 mph.
Yet the Chinese would not be waging war openly. It was an accident. The Chinese will just have to pay for the damages under the provisions of the applicable treaties.