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4 January 2019 2.00 h

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China competes in space, too

China took its place as a power in space too, yes­ter­day, land­ing on the hid­den side of the moon. Sig­nif­i­cantly, this came a few days after the United States man­aged to send a probe be­yond Pluto, and in the same year in which NASA will cel­e­brate half a cen­tury since the land­ing of the first human on the moon. The Asian su­per­power also wants to send as­tro­nauts there, and next year will begin con­struc­tion of their very own space sta­tion, to be launched by 2022. China is most def­i­nitely no longer just “the fac­tory of the world”. It is a for­mi­da­ble tech­nol­ogy com­peti­tor, who stares down the West­ern com­pe­ti­tion in the fields of telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions, en­gi­neer­ing and re­search, and wants to oust them.

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