{"id":922876,"date":"2026-10-06T14:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T14:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/922876\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T14:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T14:46:14","slug":"what-happens-if-china-wins-the-space-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/922876\/","title":{"rendered":"What happens if China wins the space race?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"What happens if China wins the space race?\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/gzero_551\/0f9b7f1af558b2cf73080a0015d43b7f.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>What happens if China wins the space race?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What happens if China gets back to the moon first? As the US-China rivalry extends beyond Earth, Ian Bremmer and China expert Elizabeth Economy explore what a new space race could mean for American power, national pride, and the competition between the world&#8217;s two biggest powers. With China rapidly expanding its space capabilities, could a Chinese astronaut planting the flag on the moon become a defining moment in the next chapter of the rivalry?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Economy argues that the US is far from losing the space race. America is a global leader in technologies like reusable rockets and putting satellites in near-Earth orbit, especially in the fast-growing private sector. The US is also expanding international partnerships through the Artemis Accords. But she also challenges the idea that every Chinese achievement is an American defeat. Putting a human on the moon would benefit all of humanity. The goal, she says, shouldn&#8217;t be to prevent China from succeeding, but to make sure Beijing doesn&#8217;t develop the ability to use its growing space capabilities to threaten US security.<br \/>&#8220;Our objective should be to ensure that the Chinese don&#8217;t gain the capability of disabling all our satellites,&#8221; Economy says, &#8220;But I don&#8217;t think it should be to prevent China from having a Chinese astronaut on the moon.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What happens if China wins the space race? What happens if China gets back to the moon first?&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":922877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[49,48,66],"class_list":["post-922876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/922877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}