China considers launching 50 satellites to set up global monitoring network

[CityFarmer]

The MH370 case is a real test case for "China Power", includes marine, global monitoring system etc.

IMO, the test result is disappointing to China people, but a relief among others. The "China Power" is overrated...

China considers launching 50 satellites to set up global monitoring network

KUALA LUMPUR — Frustrated over the failure to locate the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, Beijing is considering setting up a global monitoring network, the South China Morning Post reported yesterday.

The Hong Kong daily reported that Beijing was mulling over building more than 50 orbiting probes so it could monitor the entire planet.

Chinese researchers said this would put it on par with or exceed the United States in terms of having a network of surveillance and observation satellites.
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http://www.todayonline.com/chinaindia/ch...ng-network

[specuvestor]

It will be an excuse rather than a reason... The logical policy solution if it was a real reason is to have a law that mechanically disallow disabling plane tracking for any planes landing in China.

They are now significant enough in traffic to demand that.

[sgd]

because asean on paper looks good but in real life cannot work together, mh370 incident dragged over 3 weeks information sharing is slow because different countries don't want to reveal their capabilities. Majority of passengers over 150 passengers were chinese

So now china use this excuse to advance their monitoring capabilities on the pre-text "to protect their interest"