James Pinkerton, a fellow at the New American Foundation, argues that the U.S. should be alert to the threat posed by China's recent gains in developing a long range space strategy.

James Pinkerton argues that the U.S. should build up the capacity of the internet to serve as a ubiquitous surveillance network, allowing civillians to keep watch out for terrorists.

James Pinkerton argues that humanity should expand outward into space to avoid annhilation by terrorists armed with weapons of mass destruction.

James Pinkerton argues that efforts by environmentalists to block missile defense also threaten civillian space efforts.

James Pinkerton argues that society should develop a 'back-up' plan of expanding into space to hedge against the risk of human extinction from advanced technologies.

James Pinkerton argues that the historical evidence indicates that China has expansionist motives behind its space program.

James Pinkerton argues that recent environmental protests against space expansion to the moon and Mars is futile because it won't influence the People's Republic of China which is "intent on both expanding its terrestrial economy as quickly as possible and also space-racing into the extra-terrestrial vacuum left by America's post-Apollo retreat from the moon."