“I will not be pushed by the US” China-Russian space cooperation
Reporter Yoon Yeo-jin [email protected]
Input: 2021-03-10 18:41:28Revision: 2021-03-10 18:44:06Posted: 2021-03-10 18:43:42 (p. 11)
China has joined forces with Russia to develop a joint lunar space station. It is analyzed with the intention of putting a brake on the US-centered space exploration program and not being pushed against the competition for space development. The US-China’New Cold War’, which is struggling for dominance in the future market, is expanding into space.
According to foreign media and scientific media on the 9th (local time), Dmitry Rogozin, president of the Russian Federation of Space Agency (Los Cosmos) and Zhang Kejen, the director of the CNSA, said, ‘Signed a memorandum of understanding on development.
Moon experimental research facility development MOU
US-China New Cold War Expected to Expand into Space
The signing of the memorandum of understanding between the two countries was the result of the agreement between Russia and China, which aims to revive the glory of the former Soviet Union, which led space exploration, such as launching the world’s first manned spacecraft, and China’s interest in restraining the solemnity of the United States by realizing the dream of space excavation Is interpreted as.
In fact, Russia has recently been rebuilding a space powerhouse by establishing three lunar exploration plans over the next five years. In particular, to mark the 60th anniversary of the first manned space flight in April 1961 by former Soviet astronaut Yuri Gagarin, the lunar lander’Luna 25′, modernized 45 years after Luna 24 in 1976 on October 1st. ‘The Moon is preparing to fire at the Boguslavsky Crater near the Antarctic.
In recent years, China, which has been proving its space movement through mankind’s first lunar backside exploration, securing a third lunar sample after the United States and Russia, and launching a Mars probe, has gained momentum by working with Russia. China has become like a loner, failing to participate in the International Space Station (ISS) due to the US’s checks for fears of technology leakage, and building its own space station.
Although the details have not been disclosed, it is also noteworthy that China and Russia emphasized that they are “open to all countries and international partners with interest”. This is because it suggests the possibility of competition for supremacy even in outer space.
The U.S. has signed an Artemis Agreement that contains the norms of cooperation in space exploration in the form of bilateral agreements while promoting the’Artemis Program’, which sends male and female astronauts to the moon until 2024 and enters a resident system from 2028. Seven countries, including Australia, Canada, Japan, Britain, Italy, Luxembourg, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), have already signed agreements, and more countries are expected to participate. Russia was offered to sign an agreement, but it reacted negatively, saying that it was’American-centered’, but eventually took the hand of China.
On the other hand, as the US-China conflict continues even after the inauguration of the US administration, Joe Biden, a member of the State Council for Chinese Foreign Affairs and Foreign Affairs Minister Wang Yi, said at a press conference at the National People’s Congress held in Beijing on the 7th, “The principle of non-interference in internal affairs between the US and China. He warned, “I will not tolerate infringement of China’s core interests,” he warned. Earlier, the US, along with its allies such as Canada, pressured China’s boycott of the next February Winter Olympics by advocating the crackdown on the human rights of minority ethnic groups in China.
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