Man walks on the moon, everyone flips their shit

They're worried, if the Russians do it, USA will miss out on something. There's nothing to miss. It's a bad idea.

>Initially the agency sought to send astronauts into deep space to visit an asteroid in its native environment. However, that proved too costly and challenging, so the mission got de-scoped into bringing an asteroid back to the vicinity of the Moon. Even this proved too much, though, so now the plan is to grab a small boulder off the surface of an asteroid and bring that back to a location near the Moon where astronauts can visit it and technically fulfill the president's asteroid goal.

Because the soviet-american dick-measuring contest is over.

The Moon is no longer in danger of falling to communism, hence we don't care.

>what is the Chinese space program

Not communist?

>China isn't communist
What am I reading

Real life since Deng Xiaoping?

We'll see who's laughing when the United States of the Moon creates a hegemony over the earth states following our next cataclysmic war.

>the economics have changed therefore the People's Republic of China isn't communist

Considering a big part of communism is to do with economics and China hardly qualifies on the political side, yes.

What would you call it then?

What is a single party democracy?

Whose single party happens to be the Communist Party?

not to whom you're replying, but China is a sort of authoritarian regime. It's not communism, else there wouldn't be the broad disparity in social classes, as a town full of poor migrant farmers and factory workers 5 miles from a busy highway with thousands of bmws and audis. That's not how communism works.

>Chinese communist party
>actual communism
Pick one

When southern China grows a set of balls and fights back, that's how you get a peasant uprising. The western provinces will fragment under a newly organized muslim religious rule, and there will be "3 chinas" almost overnight. It's all the central government can do right now to prevent that from happening, and it can't last.

Good post

Communism != equality

>this retarded meme guialo keep spouting

Dude just wait for it - once the economy's growth goes back to normal levels and the "miracle" ends, you can bet your ass the plebs will have had enough.

Free up Tibet and also Uighurstan and also Greater Mongolia and also Hong Kong and also literally everything else.

>The western provinces will fragment under a newly organized muslim religious rule
Except it's wrong.

Muslims are minority even in the part of china they're crying about Communist Party not letting them to build masabas and tells them to send their kids to normal schools instead.

Not profitable, not conducive to a war effort, no risk of the Russians or Chinese beating us there. Basically there's no reason to do it other than "Because it's awesome" and that just isn't the kind of world we live in right now.

True. The US should work on some mean to send shit to the orbit reliably, I mean paying Russians to do it is nice buy seriously...

>China fragments.
>Implying no Spastic Nationalist armies will rise up and reunify the whole thing.
...like the last time.

Probably even worse this time since there's no BROHOOD AMONG PROLES to live up to.

>what is the Chinese military

The Chinese made it through the Cultural Revolution. They'll make it through economic struggles as well.

They are getting cucked hard. No more beheading apostates and stoning women.

The Chinese space program is doing immensely well.

They even have a space station with astronauts in it, and have put two rovers on the moon. And have returned moon dust.

Of course, few in the West knows this.

The usa has been in the process of outsourcing it to private companies for some time.

Mostly because we would see it through telescopes if it were true.

Colony on a floating rock - how useful.

Earth is a floating rock

Or you could google/baidu it.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiangong-1
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Lunar_Exploration_Program