Disquieting European investors on the €2.5 billion project, Galileo, the Chinese GPS system, Beidou, is going to be opened up for free access in China. In the beginning, China had publicly said that making an access to their system will be constrained to the military, and Europe had chalked out plan to get back a quantity of of the cost of their system by putting up licenses for sale to China.
Michael Shaw, from the United States government’s National Space-based Positioning, Navigation and Timing Coordination Office in Washington DC stated that forthrightly, behavior of China to Europe is not so diverse to how Europe conducted itself with us while GPS was the standalone game in town a decade back.
