China Plans to Exploit $10 Trillion Earth-Moon Economic Zone

China Plans to Exploit $10 Trillion Earth-Moon Economic Zone
The Long March-2F rocket carrying China's manned Shenzhou-10 spacecraft blasts off from launch pad at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, Gansu Province, China on June 11, 2013. ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images
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China is formulating plans to build the infrastructure over the next 30 years to exploit an Earth-moon space economic zone that will generate $10 trillion a year by 2050.

Chinese military analyst Wang Hucheng stated two decades ago that “for countries that can never win a war with the United States by using the method of tanks and planes, attacking the U.S. space system may be an irresistible and most tempting choice.”