A screen shows footage during an event on China’s lunar exploration program at the National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing on Jan. 18, 2021. Tingshu Wang/Reuters
A deepening cold war divide between China and the United States is about to be officially extended to the moon by China’s creation of a formal organization that will help extend the hegemony of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from the Earth to the Earth–moon system.
