An assessment of Chinese plans to land its taikonauts on the Moon first requires a detailed investigation of the rationales possibly guiding China’s leadership towards this ambitious endeavour. Such an analysis helps us better understand the underlying philosophy of China’s space programme and, more broadly, China’s sociopolitical behaviour, beyond the pervasive but too reductive interpretation of a strategic confrontation between a fast-rising power and a declining hegemon.
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Aliberti, M. (2015). Why the Moon? In Studies in Space Policy (Vol. 11, pp. 45–77). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19473-8_3
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