ISSN 1008-2204
CN 11-3979/C

天体采矿制度的异化演变与中国方案

Devolution of Space Mining Regime and China's Approach

  • 摘要: 美国2015年《商业外空发射竞争法案》明确保护美国公民关于天体矿产资源的财产权,开启了外空采矿制度演进的新篇章。相较于联合国和平利用外层空间委员会有关谈判的缓慢进展,国家和非国家实体等渐次推动了国内立法和非正式规范的多元展开,有必要以整体性、结构性动态方法反思外空采矿制度演进的价值取向、路径与方法。这不仅有助于推进外空采矿制度的完善,还为建构具有中国主体意识的外空采矿秩序整体构想和理论提供裨益。过去十年间,外空采矿制度演进重点在于授予矿产资源所有权以确保自由开发,同时将惠益分享和环境保护义务维持在《外空条约》粗泛过时的水准内。自由市场意识形态下的偏颇价值取向和强权下的异化民主推进了先到先得的市场化采矿,这不符合外空的全球公域属性和外空条约体系的国际主义基调。纠偏此阶段性进展需要重塑公平发展的政治氛围、通过联合国强化民主治理结构和以框架公约破解规则发展模式的二元对立。

     

    Abstract: The 2015 U.S. Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act explicitly established U.S. citizen's property rights towards mineral resources in celestial bodies, which started a new chapter in the evolution of space mining regime. In comparison to the slow progress within UN Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, states and non-state entities have gradually advanced the multifaceted development of domestic legislation and informal rules. There emerges the need for a holistic and dynamic reflection on the value orientation and approaches of this recent round of evolution, which not only helps to advance the improvement of space mining regime but also provides benefits for constructing a holistic framework and theoretical model for space mining governance with Chinese subjectivity. Over the past decade, the evolution of space mining regime has emphasized on granting and protecting the ownership of mineral resources in celestial bodies to ensure freedom to mining and maintaining benefit-sharing and environment protection obligations at the vague and outdated principles under Outer Space Treaty. The biased value orientation under a free-market ideology and devolutive democracy under hegemony promoted the legality of first-come, first-served space mining, which contradicts the global common nature of outer space and the internationalist tone of international space law. The corresponding approaches to rectify this deviation are reshaping the political climate of equity development, strengthening the democratic governing structure through the UN, and relying on framework convention to reconcile the binary opposition of treaty and non-binding rules.

     

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