The Old China Hand feels he has no choice but to throw in his lot with the Chinese because the Americans are so unreasonable.

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Matthews is an old China hand.

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Thirty-three-year-old Liu Yang, also a military pilot, has on the other hand emerged as China's first woman astronaut after just two years of training.

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China, on the other hand, has a relatively mature human spaceflight program that is nearly a decade old.

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