Rocket launch marks big step in building China’s lunar infrastructure

Queqiao-2 will relay data between Earth and Chinese spacecraft on the far side of the Moon.

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[SimonW]

Well, that's the point. Regime change can come about by the people themselves doing the changing. if the Chinese people back what their government is doing, then that's even more reason for the west to not have a desire for better relations with them. China, North Korea and Iran (as well as tacit approval by some African regimes) are directly helping Russia in it's genocidal and criminal assault on the Ukrainian people. With their continued poor record on respecting human rights, China as well as Russia don't merit our cooperation with them in space and other areas.

I come from country where we have some nice good scientific achievements. I think that our past governments, during time of scientific growth, did genocide and bad things. We thought government was doing correct things. And our people did not change the government and we were glad of achieving and politicians made money and made our country rich. Countries either worked with us, or we ignore them. Or invade them. We don't have a space program now. Was just a small rocket.

I come from the UK ...