In this mailing: Gordon G. Chang: When the Moon Turns Red: China's Plan to Annex Space Daniel Greenfield: Palestinian Authority Forms United Front With Hamas To Fight Israel When the Moon Turns Red: China's Plan to Annex Space by Gordon G. Chang  •  March 13, 2024 at 5:00 am "Chinese control of the moon would confer control of Cis-Lunar space, the portion of space between the Earth and the moon. Control of Cis-Lunar space would give a country the ability to shoot down or otherwise disable deep-space satellites, which are essential for, among other things, the early warning of ballistic missile attacks." — Richard Fisher of the International Assessment and Strategy Center, to the author, March 2014. The free world should view Chinese and Russian progress with alarm. China's regime, for instance, has made it clear it intends to annex space. Ye Peijian made it clear that Beijing intends to exclude others from the moon, among other places, if it is in a position to do so. The American-led Artemis program also contemplates a base at the south pole. NASA, unfortunately, has been pushing back Artemis timetables. Article II of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty prohibits "national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means," but when has a treaty obligation ever stopped the People's Republic from doing whatever it wants? China, with Russia's help, wants to build a base on the moon. If the Chinese regime succeeds in building the first facility there, it will try to deny to others the ability to land on the lunar surface. Pictured: A Long March 3B rocket, carrying the Beidou-3GEO3 satellite, lifts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China's Sichuan province on June 23, 2020. (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images) China, with Russia's help, wants to build a base on the moon. If the Chinese regime succeeds in building the first facility there, it will try to deny to others the ability to land on the lunar surface.  The People's Republic of China in fact intends to annex the near parts of the solar system. As Richard Fisher of the International Assessment and Strategy Center pointed out to this author, Chinese control of the moon would confer control of Cis-Lunar space, the portion of space between the Earth and the moon.  Control of Cis-Lunar space would give a country the ability to shoot down or otherwise disable deep-space satellites, which are essential for, among other things, the early warning of ballistic missile attacks. Beijing and Moscow understand all this.  In 2021, Roscosmos, Russia's space agency and the China National Space Administration agreed to build a shared moon base, to be named the International Lunar Research Station. Continue Reading Article