Is the United States really in a new space race with China? Or is that framing missing the bigger picture?
In this Space Policy Edition of Planetary Radio, Casey Dreier, chief of space policy at The Planetary Society, sits down with Patrick Besha, former NASA strategic advisor on China, to explore the realities behind China’s rapidly advancing space program. They discuss how China’s political system shapes its long-term space strategy, why the rhetoric about a “space race” may be misleading, and how competition between the United States and China in space is likely to unfold over the coming decades.
Discover more at: https://www.planetary.org/planetary-radio/spe-us-china-space-race

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