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		PerfectDlite on Oct 17, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: China's Shenzhou 11 blasts off on space station mi... > That surprises me as they certainly have the expertise to build such a system This might be questionable. Soyuz (as the name implies) was built in USSR, not Russia. After USSR dissolved some experts were outside Russia. And since several decades passed most people with Soviet knowledge are already retired.

DominikR on Oct 17, 2016 [–]

I don't know about that, at least regarding rocket technology they seem to be ahead and not by a small factor, probably a decade. (they have been upgrading their ICBM's and missile defence systems very aggressively in the last 15 years)

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