Commentary
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) does not broadcast its ambitions to achieve hegemony in space in order to enforce its ambitions for hegemony on Earth. Still, it has turned the chairman and Party secretary of its leading space contractor, the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), into a major spokesman for gradually revealing the Party’s imperial ambitions in space.
CASC builds tactical and intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and many space launch vehicles (SLVs). It is the leading Chinese company for building rockets and landers to support China’s goal of putting people on the moon by 2030 or earlier….