in the last ten years, it's launched more than 200 rockets. like the west, china's satellites are both vital for everyday communications and military purposes. its technical achievements bring with it much sought after international prestige. its new space station, called tiangong, is now occupied. china has invited other nations on board and made a call for proposals for scientific experiments mirroring and rivalling the west's international space station. and its ambitions don't end there. like america, china also has plans to put an astronaut on the moon. so, is this the new space race? i think the context is slightly different this time around. 0n the back of the cold war, we saw the space race, because, in essence, this was about the missiles attached and the rockets attached to the space flight programmes, so every