Is China Preparing to Blitz the Moon?

A Long March-5 rocket, carrying an orbiter, lander and rover as part of the Tianwen-1 mission to Mars, lifts off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Center, in China's Hainan Province, on July 23, 2020. Noel Celis/AFP via Getty Images

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When the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) commences its manned moon program, it may do so in a big way, as its goal is to control the Earth-moon system to enforce its hegemony on Earth and then regulate access to the future “Space Economy.”