Space Policy Edition: China’s growing space science ambitions

<p>If the United States is indeed in a space race with China, then we cannot abandon space science. That&rsquo;s the claim made by Maxwell Zhu and The Planetary Society&rsquo;s chief of space policy, Casey Dreier, in a recent op-ed in Payload Space. Their piece contrasted the growing ambitions of China&rsquo;s coming space science program against the draconian cuts proposed by the White House in 2026. The results are stark: where China is pursuing new missions, the United States is abandoning them. Casey and Maxwell explore why this is the case, whether China sees this investment as part of a competition at all, and the structural challenges of integrating space science into a geopolitical context.</p> <p><br>Discover more at: <a href="https://www.planetary.org/planetary-radio/maxwell-zhu-on-chinas-space-science-ambitions">https://www.planetary.org/planetary-radio/maxwell-zhu-on-chinas-space-science-ambitions</a></p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listen...