China could claim resource-rich regions of moon: Report
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson has warned that China could claim resource-rich regions of the moon as its own as the country intends to gain economic benefits through space exploration, the Indo-Pacific Center for Strategic Communications (IPCSC) reported.
According to the IPCSC report, China's efforts to use its space program to transform itself into a military, economic, and technological power will soon reshape the world order.
China in 2020, announced its plans to establish an economic zone with an output value of USD 10 trillion. Nelson in an interview with Politico on January 1, said he was concerned that China would build scientific research facilities in a desirable area on the moon and then claim sovereignty over it.
China, last year, built a space station orbiting the Earth and performed several missions around the moon to extract samples.
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