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Taikonauts on a spacewalk outside the Chinese space station Tiangong.
China and the USA are engaged in a race for supremacy in space. The moon could become contested territory. The USA fears that the People’s Republic could lay claim to it, as it did in the South China Sea.
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Frank Sieren
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China and the USA are fighting for supremacy not only at the border between airspace and outer space, but also in outer space itself. Here, China has to catch up, but it is making surprisingly rapid progress. The People’s Republic has been running a permanent space station since the end of 2022, and two astronauts carried out their first spacewalk around the beginning of 2023. This means that mankind now operates two permanent habitable outposts in space.

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