Food for thought – China made a fortune on America's appetite for consumer goods. That gave them a meteoric rise to dang-near world dominance and now they're lookin' to the moon? Talk about a turf-war – http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/dec/30/china-manned-moon-mission-lunar
China plans manned moon mission
Nearly 40 years after Nasa last did it, Chinese space agency announces its 'preliminary plan for a human lunar landing'