Explore China's ambitious space program and its impact on global power dynamics. From historical origins at Caltech to leading-edge missions, discover how China aims to outpace US space efforts by 2045.
Qian Xuesen was NOT simply "deported" back to China. He wanted to go back to China on his own, saying that his reasoning was simple: He didn't want to make weapons that would kill his countrymen. The US put him under house arrest to PREVENT him from leaving, and only let him go as part of a prisoner exchange later on.
it was worse than that. the man was arrested under false charges. all of his colleagues vouched for him, but regardless with no evidence they revoked all his access preventing him from doing his primary work, subjected him to long trials and detentions then placed him under house arrest when they could not get anything to stick(because he is actually innocent). while under house arrest, he read a news paper, one piece of news was that china was calling Chinese scientists back to help develop the country. he made up his mind then. i think it was an easy decision. the US of course did not want to let him go and tried everything. he might have died under house arrest, but china offered to return a bunch of us pilots captured in the Korean war for him, and so a prisoner exchange happened and he was allowed a ticket to china. lots of shady things happened in between, such as offers of giving him his access back in return for staying in the US(lol like who would trust you at this point?) and murmurs of an assassination attempt if he got off the boat at any of its stops.
@@mxn1948 I didn't even bother watching this garbage. You can tell the quality of its content without watching. After all, it did upload with the typical clickbait thumbnail, complete with the intentionally uglified portrayal of China
@mxn1948 I didn't even bother watching this garbage. You can tell the quality of its content without watching. After all, it did upload with the typical clickbait thumbnail, complete with the intentionally uglified portrayal of China.
@@aaabbb-py5xd That talking head appears on many different channels. On all those channels, whenever he came across anything related to China, you can see the disgust develops on his face. That fella despise the Chinese
@qifee1 of course, he wouldn't mention it. The US has 'helped' China to be self reliant on anything. The Ukraine war taught China and the world many valuable lessons.
On Chinese social media people joked that the person who proposed the amendment was a “genius”, especially after Chang’e 6 returned to earth with lunar soil.
People need to understand one thing about asian societies especially China, they don't consider themselves a country, but a civilization, as such, their plans are extremely long term, it's why their first carrier plan came in the 90s and it was first realized in the 2010s, a 2100 plan is completely realistic for China, the west could learn more about long term thinking rather than 4 year switches.
The CCP doesn’t think long term, it’s reactionary. If they thought long term then they wouldn’t have any issues with birthrates. They wouldn’t have had any problems with their Belt and Road Initiative, which is failing. The problem that China has is corruption and bribes. Corruption has led to massive waste and bribes have led to things not getting done.
That's because they don't practice western democracy. When you have a firm grip to power, you can plan years ahead (for the good and bad) For China's case, the good far surpasses the bad.
@@4362mont You can't, because after the person return back to earth he will be partially paralyzed, not until more advanced biotechnologies can help solving this issue and lengthening the stay of humans in outer space. Learning science is important.
@@yoongzy A very tough Russian cosmonaut set a record of 437 continuous days in space aboard the _Mir_ back in1995. /0 Am I to believe that you are saying that the CPC cannot make the Chinese do almost as well (365 days) 30+ years later?
Chinas space station comparing to ISS 😂 lol for real ? , we can live in space but bone loss will occur, how bad ? Depending on daily exercise. Now imagine if China had a craft like Staship 😮 you can’t take away from Chinese that they build their own Space Station what Americans couldn’t 😂 space station freedom is shittier name than heavenly palace
Competition is good tho you can use it for motivation, but reaching this without competition is kind of amazing, if you can just reach some peak without to much motivation then you are genius or a hardworker.
@@saaddudin7163 This is socialism bro, driven by absolute order. In capitalist societies, people are motivated by profit to do certain things or explore certain fields. When the profit dries up, plans gone. just like the U.S. space program did. But in a socialist society, they can execute a plan set 50 years ago just like ticking off a checklist. It's not about being genius, it’s hardworker. Due to their social system and culture, Chinese are famously hardworking.
Fun Fact. Qian xuesen also helped developed China’s Hypersonic Missiles. He created the technology of Hypersonic missiles. Even now the trajectory of Hypersonic missiles are called “Qian xuesen Trajectory “ I went to the same university that Qian went to, Proud Alumni.
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I wouldn't be surprised if Michelle Yeoh suggested that the ship that she captains be called the Shenzhou in the first two episodes of Star Trek: Discovery, since she was one of the first people cast for the show & she’s part Chinese.
Yeah no. China is one of, if not the most insecure nation on the planet. Where saving face goes above everything else. Thus the humiliation not being competative in such a field is nothing China could ever shoulder. But hey, competition is a good thing. It fuels inventiveness and brings people to keep trying to one up each other all the time. And in this field its great, its not military competition but peacefull space exploration. And when it comes to launch vehicles, China is already where the USA/Soviet Union was in the 70s, and on a decent path of improvement. Even though the performace of their launch vehicles and engines is still a bit lacking behind even that. Modern computers compansate quiet a bit. So lets get this going and let us all peacefully conquer space together as humanity, and not seperate nations!
I'm relying on google translate but that's a good attitude ... except that it's a facade. There is no shame in admitting that China is interested in catching up technologically in economic as well as military areas. Indeed it should do so in order to protect its own interests including the billions that live there.
Has China said anything resembling "space race"? Since Wolf Amendment, China has been just doing their own thing. It doesn't make sense if they're racing because their goals are behind whenever the US set their goal unless they're racing to be second when there is only 2 players. That's why I think it's only one way race where the US just racing Chinese speed while China just doing there own thing.
Well said, it doesn’t seem like the Chinese care about what the US is doing, they just taking their time and doing their thing. As much as I despise one political party in charge, they sure do get shit done with long term goals. All we have here in US is 4 years of progress, then we hit the reset button. The US is running in place, we’re doomed!
@@LifelongLearnerForeveri think the western ideal of multiple political parties is overhyped. The word "dictatorship" by itself is neutral, and it is because of bad dictators and western propaganda that turned this word into a negative one. A dictatorship doesn't mean the people are being suppressed, but having one ruling party manage the country. The united states boasts its democracy but none of the candidates are good options and they do not have the country's best interest in mind. Plus the us citizens arent that free either, just look at all the suppression of freedom in different races and genders. One advantage of a good dictatorship is letting the country focus on a singular goal instead of having to worry about competition and wasting time fighting over meaningless things. When a government embodies the entirety of a country's ideal, theres no need for multiple parties. This is why modern China can do so much and so efficiently when compared to most western democracies
@@LifelongLearnerForever lol so much for informed and open mindset when you can actually hate with desire to destroy a country based on something you have very little actual experience with or real information about. speaks volume of your mind and heart or rather speaks volume of the sht that has filled your mind and heart. Nope I am not from china nor a supporter but I do not hate them like indoctrinated american.
@@kenneth2519 Communism is not the main reason for China's economic growth, more the core reason is the ancient Chinese culture at work, in the most developed countries in East Asia, such as Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, most of these areas are influenced by Confucian culture
Why do Westerners loves to 'race' so much? So they can declare a 'winner' and claim bragging rights. For China, it is never about making anything a race, or who's doing it faster. It's always about doing things properly at their own pace, so that the people can become winners. Because when their people are doing great, the country naturally becomes great.
@@campfiresnlasguns Putting anything but especially large things into orbit is like rolling rocks to the top of a hill. Neighbors below must depend on your concern for them, your trustworthiness, and your caution.
Qian Xuesen was forced to leave without any documents/blueprints of what he built in the US (for obvious reasons). Yet, he was able to turn the whole space program in China around once he returned. This shows how good this guy was.
Qian has rank of colonel in US military. In his biography, he said all his family members are ready to sacrifice their life to make him back to China alive. At that time, I think China spent all its covert war capability to protect him. It was very close call.
Nah, he was house arrested and had his clearance stripped. He lost court battle for US citizenship. So back to the history, he was pushed out the country by anti-communism sentiment at that time. Thanks to senator McCarthy, his efforts had changed the course of history. Dr. Qian pretty much single handed built the rocket science for China.
In the late 1990s the US try to block any cooperation with the Chinese in rocket development citing national securities issues, in 2011 US pressure other members to ban the Chinese from ISS, in recent years the US try to block any transfer of "sensitive" technology (included those who can indirectly benefit the Chinese space program). The consequences were always a Chinese successful push to innovation and self-reliance. Maybe a change of US politics is necessary in this regard and collaboration can be a win-win.
@@YSKWatch Because Taikonaut is a word created by a Malaysian Chinese, and it's based on a Chinese word that is rarely used in Mainland China (mostly used in Hong Kong and Taiwan).
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Top desired profession in china: Taikongnaut Top desired profession in US: RU-vidr/Tiktoker China has the same focus and respect for science and engineering that the US had in the 50s and 60s. Those kids grew up to usher in the technological revolutions of the 70s-'00s A decade from now, this generation of Chinese students will be doing the same, and they'll get to compete again a generation of RU-vidrs asking "why did they bother teaching us algebra in school"
@@hallowwin2721 it's true TikTokers make way more money, but there's no social prestige, especially for children who are taught from a young age the value of STEM so they'll say astronaut. People work for more than money - JFK understood this, America forgot when Reagan was elected and celebrity overcame the meritocracy
this comment is repeated nearly verbatim in so many places it's creepy how coordinated it is. if anyone is wondering it's from a Lego survey taken in 2018 (i.e. young children -- for older Americans "doctor" dominates most of these surveys depending on the specific wording and the specific demographic).
@@mikestewart4752 China has fewer failed launches than SpaceX... so while it's easy to joke about cheap Chinese manufacturing, they haven't been cutting corners in space development.. unlike SpaceX and Boeing, which have obscene numbers of failures (NASA has the fewest losses of craft of any private or government agency.. up until the Shuttle program was euthanized anyway.. now it relies on private sector which has proven to be horrifically unreliable with all their failures).
@@mikestewart4752 18 US astronauts were killed on Apollo 1, Challenger, and Colombia. China lost none, I'm not sure who should be paying life insurance in full
Check out for Peruns' video on the space race from this past weekend. It's far more in depth. China is miles behind NASA The problem is NASA isn't even the top dog anymore. SpaceX is lapping the field. I'm not a Musk fan but he bet big and at least with SpaceX he's winning big. They're launching more into orbit than the entire rest of the world combined.
For the next videos, I'd like to see a deep dive on basically all projects. Including the current missions like far side of the moon sample return and other missions, and how they fit into the goal of establishing a permanent moon base. As time goes by it will become clear how important and groundbreaking these missions and achievement will become for the advancement of humankind and our goal to become a multiplanetary civilization.
Qian's most important invention in china isnot rocket or nuclear weapon, but a new science subject called Systems Engineering, which aiming to achieve fine usable products with poor, cheap components. It also give leaders a method to control a project with engineering/mathematics, istead of traditional management. I should point out that this important invention directly reduce the production and constraction cost in china with about 40%.
@@Holgerdanske688 Well because they can and are determined to solve problems fast with technical and scientific support, not like the old them, that's why they call the current China as new China.
@@Holgerdanske688 if you're wondering, then you haven't been paying attention to anything. It's 2024 and you're still asking why. It's long overdue that you do some research and look at China with an open mind. But you won't, so I'm telling you now that they did it through extreme hard work, dedication to solve problems, backed by an enormous amount of young and highly educated engineers with an unwavering ambition to succeed. That's how.
Facts are facts. He could speculate about the economic future of China and how it will affect their space program, but that has yet to happened so its not a fact.
@@AlanFenick That's true, but mainland China isn't communist, albeit having a party with communist in its name. You would have no trace of capitalism if you are communist, by which standard only North Korea technically qualifies.
Some people joked that the person who proposed the Wolf amendment (preventing collaboration between China and US in the field of space research) was a “genius”, especially after Chang’e 6 returned to earth with lunar soil.
@@yoongzy - Good. Their power mongering ways are arrogant and dangerous. It's a safer world when America's ego doesn't have to look at a pretty new space station.
I'm not a Communist, but between world war 2 China and Russia until today, there is a great many topics available for further review that I'd be interested in hearing about.
@CatDad01 The U.S can't seem to even move an inch domestically with the 2 parties blocking each other policies, They are tying both arms behind their own backs, not to mention that each new president changes the goal posts for NASAs objectives wasting Extraordinary amounts of time , money and resources. Sad state of affairs . Perhaps that's what Amrrica should rename its self .....
@@CatDad01 I can understand were you are coming from, America is the best at almost every thing. I just feel that America should take this opportunity to sharpen their weapons, and take up arms(meaning an arms race with China).
They've made their own worries. It was the US that kicked China off the ISS, forcing them to make their own space station. The threats and bullying go entirely one way as the US tries to push China into a war because they can't compete economically.
She ended her life because of seeming dehumanization about Chinese people, wrote an extensive book about warcrimes by Japan and nobody cared, I sometimes feel the same when we talk about warcrimes commited against middle eastern people by the west
I bought some 4-6 complicated wristwatch, nearly 20 years ago, that were let for sale at China Ambassador of Germany. They were part of program named " Man in to Mars" I was later told. China had ordered high precision tools from Switzerland , to make some quality items/parts . Part of program to learn how to use tools, were copy these watches, so that one could not see difference ( at inside? ) of working watch movement and Chinese copy. It took around 5-10 years to learn to make perfect working copy. Cant remember all models, but one was Forget complicated wristwatch
It’s a nod to the traditional connection between astrology/astronomy and Taoist religious studies of heavenly gods, in which Taoist scholars try to predict the future and decide the heavenly messages via position of stars/planets and trajectory of meteorites
The official Chinese for astronauts is not yu-hang-yuan but hang-tian-yuan, which means spaceman, or just "astronaut" in Chinese, without using the Chinese pronunciation in English. "Taikonaut" has never been standard Chinese , probably a Chinese term used by Asian Americans.
It's coined by a Malaysian Chinese and spread to the world from Southeast Asia. Hong Kong media were the first to adopt this term and introduced it to the public.
Scott Manley’s YT channel covers all launches bigger than a sounding rocket. The pace of Chinese launches is impressive. It will be interesting to see how available they make the science done on the Chinese space station. They have some small fish up there now.
@@ressljs There is no such thing as fortune cookies in China. This was invented for the westerners only by someone who was migrated to US long time ago.
He was one of four founding father of NASA’s JPL lab and then when he return to China, he also became a founding father of China’s space program. Thus he is the only person who founded two nations space programs. 😂 Shows how without Chinese U.S. won’t have their space program today. FYI Xian’s friend also another Chinese is also inventor of American’s minuteman missiles for Boeing which is still being used today.
Thanks for a well researched piece. However the name of the party is CPC (Communist Party of China). CCP is a misnomer and often a term used by trolls.
It’s 中国共产党。 whatever it’s translate to or what acronym one uses to represent it in English is irrelevant. Using one or the other doesn’t in anyway indicate the user is well intentioned or not.
@@xuansu9036 CPC是中国共产党的官方翻译版本。对外稿件，宣传都是这样写的。与此同时，CCP是反华势力贯用的一个psudo acronym。几乎是一个meme的等级。这个博主有关中国的视频一向是挺中立的，所以他使用CCP可能是受了meme影响。CPC is the official English acronym for 中国共产党， while CCP is a meme level psudo acronym often used by anti-China forces to express their contempt. They should not be mixed if any article want to be taken seriously.
Not to be that guy, but words ending in -e in Chinese, like Chang’e, make an “uh” sound. So it’s pronounced like “Chang-Uh” not “Chang-eeee.” As China rises and develops, it will be more important to understand basic things about pronunciation.
Wasn't the Heavenly Palace name used in the book by Dan Simmons in his space opera quadrology Songs of Hyperion? He even wrote about a space station with similar name.
This is the type of competition that can help China and the USA eventually mend their relationship. Space is so hostile. We are going to need to help each other like good neighbors when we try to live on the moon and mars. We will both need the help at some point.
We've never had the kind of relationship one *mends*. It's the kind where divorce from & restraining orders against China are a number of countries' best options.
Good reasons for manned space travel are still pretty slim, space mining is still stupid. So, this cant be anything else than another episode of dick measuring contest. And yes, China and US will need help from each other to show how much they are better from each other, but i dont think this is the type of cooperation you had in mind :).
collected energy will be converted to microwave or laser beams to transmit back to some land based receivers. when you have a high energy laser beams operational in space without concerns for its power supply, you don't need to weaponize it, just like you don't weaponize a rifle, it is a deadly weapon from day one, you just use it for civilian purposes during those peaceful days.
@@kamsunleong6648So must China. Please don't tell me that Chinese nationalism and pride does not exist. You are exhibiting it right now. What was the Chinese flag doing on Chang-e 6? 🤣
@@xuansu9036 It's not a "vain ideal". Someone else's achievement is always a challenge to do better. This is how all sports work. This is how all progress works. It's called competition.
Glad to see China moving, but the governments need to stop always picking fights with eachother! Can we please get over all the crap that some old man did before qny of us were born. We are all humanity, and Earthlings! There's a beautiful star cluster filled with life all around us!
Bro China hasn’t fought in any war for Decades but loving USA has been involved in very war since WW2… you have been brainwashed to think what the US does is normal but when China does something you all go crazy China this China that..
Did you see that rocket at 13:03, with the "Grid Fins", which look suspiciously similar to SpaceX's flight control devices on the Falcon 9 rocket? The Chinese rocket even appears to have the number "9" emblazoned on its exterior! Damn, those spies!
Lol..and the USA got to the Moon how...by giving a bunch of war criminal scientists safe haven, new names and ABSOLUTION for their crimes..I wonder how America's Jews saw the nation lauding Von Braun.....
Sure, sure….because we all know that the Chinese people are genetically and culturally incapable of innovation, creative thinking and independently come out with solutions on their own amirite? Without the almighty America to copy the incredibly smart geniuses that lives in that Olympian continent, the Chinese probably will only be all at most capable of rice farming, amirite?😂
@@Shbtsd Grid fins are for guiding returning booster. Russians never had a reusable booster. They designed what was supposed to be a reusable ORBITER in Buran, but it had only the test flight.
Space belongs to those willing to properly fund it. The US is pathologically risk averse with government funding because corporate tax cuts always come first. NASA is competing with their hands behind their back thanks to America's backwards neoliberal ideology.
@@adamsutherland2593 we basically put a 757 in space that was reusable. we just didn't see a point reusing booster rockets due to the risk. stop suckling at the musky teet.
@@CatDad01 It's not "catch up," it's just the continuation of the curve -- we started with disposable rockets launching disposable crew modules... that led to disposable rockets launching re-usable modules... and now we have reusable rockets launching re-usable modules. Soon we'll likely be moving on to reusable rockets that are also the module -- it's just how progress is done.
When the base on the moon is built, then we can experience 1.2 second real life interaction ping with the spaceman there instead of just in a online video game. that I can not wait!
China is defintly on the rise but at the same time i keep seeing those debunking videos about Chinas actual quality in real life (anf economocis as well) so i woudlnt jump om this China boom so quickly
I do wonder about this. The US was built on its hard work (which is a shadow of what it was) and its pretty substantial resources. But now we are outpacing with demand while resources are dwindling. China is on the same path, just started later, so they haven't already spent 200 years eating away at those resources. However, they also have 4x as many people as us to support, and so will likely burn through those resources a lot faster than we were able to. Add to that the fact that they have reached the high standard of living phase much quicker than us too, and they will likely lose that hard work ethic just as much faster too, if they aren't already. A classic case of "the candle that burns twice as bright lasts half as long" perhaps?
"debunking videos" = propaganda by embittered south africans who fled the country when they realised they couldn't continue their 'medical school trainer' scam
They're not 'debunking' videos - they're propaganda videos. All they do is make you underestimate China, a country that existed for thousands of years before America was discovered.
I think most Americans and politicians do not care too much about going to the moon anymore. It has already been done. Building a base on the moon will not be economically interesting and using it as a spring board to go to Mars is hardly a serious argument without a decent plan why you would need a Moon base.
They're certainly ambitious. And as they relax rules for the private sector we might see some competition from private Chinese firms, even if they have to steal some IP and trade secrets from SpaceX or orther firms.
Yeah. SPACEX: Owned by the guy who wants to move his industries to China because he worships their forced labor, I mean 'work ethic'. What could possibly go wrong, except for the 'smart' features?
@@hwg5039 Why would I cry? Human achievement is human achievement. I just was saying I wished America had bigger ambitions. Are you going to Cry now? I'll assume yes.
@@hwg5039 I don't know but as I read your comment, I could tell how you were sobbing writing it. My point was obviously that authoritarian govts have less red tape and do things faster. Are you dense?
