Commentary
By late April or early May, it’s expected that China will have started the construction of its first large space station. Given its importance to the larger ambitions of the regime in Beijing, it should be called Space Station Hegemony.
A Long March 7 orbital launch vehicle carrying China's cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-1 lifts off from its launch pad at the Wenchang Space Launch Centre in Wenchang, southern China's Hainan Province, on April 20, 2017. Fred Dufour/AFP via Getty Images
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Rick Fisher
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Rick Fisher is a senior fellow at the International Assessment and Strategy Center.
