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To truly avoid a conflict of interest, the Boeing executive appointed acting secretary of defense would have to avoid many significant decisions, write Mandy Smithberger and William D. Hartung of Tom’s Dispatch.
Even if China’s rise heralds a new space race, not all consequences will be negative, writes Wendy Whitman Cobb.