China's Space Ambitions: Dr. Namrata Goswami
On this edition of The Ex Terra podcast, Dr. Namrata Goswami discusses the Chinese space program and China's space ambitions, which are extensive.
Dr. Goswami is a strategic analyst and consultant on Great Power Politics, Space Policy, Alternate Futures, and Frameworks of Conflict Negotiation and Resolution.
Dr. Goswami grew up in Northeast India. She completed her Ph.D. in international relations in 2005. In 2006, she launched her professional career in academic research, studying Great Power Politics, International relations, and ethnic conflicts.
She has served as Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace, and as a Fellow at the Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses. She continues her research on Great Power Politics in the realm of Grand Strategy as well as ethnic conflicts.
She recently co-authored a new book with Peter Garretson titled "Scramble for the Skies: The Great Power Competition to Control the Resources of Outer Space". The book examines the economic ambitions of the second space race with a focus on China, the United States, and India. The authors argue that space ambitions are informed by a combination of factors, including available resources, capability, elite preferences, and talent pool.
She is currently working on a book project on "China's Grand Strategy and The Notion of Territoriality and Resources" and a second project on conceptualizing a space power matrix answering a key question: what makes a country a space power?
She was one of the presenters at the recent virtual AFWERX conference.
In part two of a two-part series, Dr. Goswami talks with Ex Terra's Tom Patton about China's space program and ambitions. China plans to launch an indigenous space station in the coming years with an eye towards landing humans on the moon in the next two decades. We discuss those plans, and get an insider's assessment of their chances for success.
The ExTerra mission is to explore and discuss the business of space, and its effect on the national and global economy as well as life on Earth.
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