Chinese telescope could detect extraterrestrial life

Granted Snowden has already told us why we can't find aliens, they probably use encryption. But let's suppose other signs of life might be detectable anyway, and that China will  have the biggest telescope. In that case, then here's the thing:

If China discovered extraterrestrial life, would they tell anyone outside of China?


My suspicion is, no, they wouldn't.

Thanks for that Calach; very interesting.

I forgot the details but I know that there is a "bigger" telescope project underway internationaly.  It is not so much that they are building a big telescope but they are all going to co-ordinate and focus beams as it were to create the effect of a large super telescope for the purpose of picking up some data from a far off galaxy that is currently collapsing in on itself due to some freak accident spiraling black holes that will collide with each other ( previously thought impossible due to the laws of gravity). They hope the data will shed some light on whether or not gravity exists ( it is a disputed concept, the existence of these black holes is an argument against gravity) as well some data to dig further into the time mystery.

Now that is damn interesting.

Didn't find anything specific about an international array, however:

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/12/death-spiral-of-merging-supemassive-black-holes.html
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/22999753/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/eyes-skies-getting-bigger-bigger/

Damned Earthlings are getting too inquisitive.

We may have to take countermeasures soon.