{"id":63827,"date":"2024-05-05T10:16:29","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T01:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/05\/the-new-space-race-what-are-chinas-ambitions-and-why-is-the-us-so-concerned"},"modified":"2024-05-05T10:16:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T01:16:29","slug":"the-new-space-race-what-are-chinas-ambitions-and-why-is-the-us-so-concerned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63827","title":{"rendered":"The new \u2018space race\u2019: what are China\u2019s ambitions and why is the US so concerned?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As China launches its Chang\u2019e-6 mission to the far side of the moon, US officials have expressed alarm at the pace of its advancements<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/03\/china-moon-mission-far-side-chang-e-6-launch\">China to launch ambitious moon mission<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The worsening rivalry between the world\u2019s two most powerful countries that has in recent years spread across the world, has now extended beyond the terrestrial, into the realms of the celestial.<\/p>\n<p>As China has become deeply enmeshed in strategic competition with the US \u2013 while edging towards outright hostilities with other regional neighbours \u2013 Washington\u2019s alarm at the pace of its advancement in space is growing ever-louder.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/05\/the-new-space-race-what-are-chinas-ambitions-and-why-is-the-us-so-concerned\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As China launches its Chang\u2019e-6 mission to the far side of the moon, US officials have expressed alarm at the pace of its advancementsChina to launch ambitious moon missionThe worsening rivalry between the world\u2019s two most powerful countries that has i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,1584,297,295,45,473],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-nasa","category-space","category-the-moon","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-military"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63828,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63827\/revisions\/63828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}