Last week, Chinese astronauts boarded the new chinese space station: Tiangong-2, which will become humanity's only off world space station once the ISS burns itself up in a fiery blaze of glory due to US budgeting constraints.
Over in Washington, you could hear the howls of disappointment and frustration as the Americans had tried very, very hard to prevent China from attaining space access. Needless to say, americans are forbidden by their own government in working with Chinese in space, and in any case, american quality simply isn't up to par with what's required for international space research.
Only last week, Chinese Mars rover sent back an epic selfie:
China's Mars rover Zhurong just snapped an epic self-portrait on the Red Planet
Source: https://www.space.com/china-mars-rov...-selfie-photos
And now the russians will be teaming up with China to build humanity's first permanent lunar colony:
European astronauts are already learning Chinese and training to board the Chinese space station
Mind you, this is all in spite of american objections of simply not wanting white europeans work closely with China the way a jealous middle schooler tries to get Becky to stop riding in the new Chinese Jock's Bugatti.
The message is clear: China is the future and China is humanity's last and best hope of building off world colonies and becoming an interstellar species.
China has the drive, the scientists, the men and women (notice how young all the space scientists are), the technology, the finance and power to make it happen.
The United States, simply cannot match the same drive to succeed, and the rest of the world knows it.