ANALYSIS – China has just announced that it plans to land its version of astronauts ‘taikonauts' on the moon by 2030. This would be a first for any country other than the United States, which last sent men to the moon on the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.
Along with China's other impressive space developments, this lunar goal is also pushing the U.S. and China closer to war in space.
China is increasingly posing a threat to the vital U.S. satellites the Pentagon relies on for almost everything.
In 2021 China launched a satellite with a robotic arm – Shijian-17, or SJ-17 – capable of grabbing other satellites and has developed a way to place explosives in their thruster nozzles.
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