The United States is about to wake up to the threat from China's space program
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西方航天界对中国未来数年载人登月计划存在两种看法：一种认为美国阿波罗登月成就早已奠定领先地位，无需过度担忧；另一种则视其为21世纪中美地缘政治竞争的关键一环，若中国率先实现载人登月，将被视为重大地缘政治胜利，并可能借此宣称已超越美国成为本世纪超级大国。文章指出，美国即将正视这一来自中国航天计划的挑战。
There are generally two schools of thought in the Western space community when it comes to the prospect of China landing humans on the Moon in the next few years and very possibly beating NASA and the United States in its efforts to return astronauts there.
Many people will ask what the big deal is. After all, NASA won the space race to the Moon nearly six decades ago, when Apollo 11 landed there. That it took so long for anyone else to follow speaks to the magnitude of the US achievement, they might say.
But others have a starkly different opinion. A dominant storyline of the 21st century has been the economic and geopolitical rise of China, and what was once a unipolar world now has two large nations vying for supremacy across a number of fronts. One is space. If China can land humans on the Moon before the United States returns, it will represent a huge geopolitical win. From a propaganda standpoint, it will allow China to declare that it has not just caught up to the United States but surpassed it as this century's superpower.
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