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China Looks To Deep Space Missions, Including More Lunar Landings and Robot Ants (xinhuanet.com)
MarkWhittington writes: China has already landed a rover on the moon and has launched numerous crewed space missions in low-Earth orbit. It is looking ahead to building a space station and landing more probes on the moon, including the lunar farside. According to a story in Xinhua, the Chinese are already looking beyond to deep space missions to destinations including the moon, Mars, and asteroids. The idea is that China will not be a respected space power until it starts accomplishing things in space that no other country has done before.
China's spending on "weiwen" (lit. "maintaining stability"), i.e. domestic surveillance, Internet censorship, targeted extrajudicial arrest, character assassination, and violent suppression of social dissatisfaction, far outweighs its military spending.
control and eliminate your pollution and reduce your population and you will have all the respect the World could ever give you.
On a per capita basis, China produces less pollution that either America or Europe. China's population growth is near zero, and will soon begin to decline. If current trends continue, India's population will exceed China's by 2028.
It doesn't have many allies in the sense like Canada and the US or NATO but it does have many allies. It has strong ties with North Korea. Then there are the trading alliances. It's a big trading partner with the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the EU, and many other countries. It is allied with Russia on some things and has a big natural gas contract. China has been buying large areas of farmland in Australia, South America, and Africa in order to guarantee food supplies. It has also been financing the building of many projects in less developed countries.
Really, can the US put a person into space?