WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- The United States has entered a consequential new era of competition with China in space -- one that lawmakers said will shape global power, economic security and military advantage for generations. House Science, Space and Technology Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee Chairman Mike Haridopolos, R-Fla., posed the issue during a hearing Thursday as a question for the future. "Will humanity carry forward the American values of economic and political freedom, or those