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The John Batchelor Show

PRC; MOON BOUND. BRANDON WEICKERT, NATIONAL INTEREST@GORDONGCHANG, GATESTONE, NEWSWEEK, THE HILL

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

News, Books, Society & Culture, Arts

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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PRC; MOON BOUND. BRANDON WEICKERT,  NATIONAL INTEREST@GORDONGCHANG, GATESTONE, NEWSWEEK, THE HILL
AUGUST 1958

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0:00.0

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0:06.6

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0:13.0

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0:17.8

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0:24.6

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0:31.3

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0:36.7

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0:39.3

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0:46.9

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0:58.2

slash G-O.

1:03.5

This is CBS. I'm the world. I'm John Batchel. China in space, the story is that China's program late is pushing barriers everywhere

1:16.3

in all directions. Roscosmos early is aged out and NASA is in between, a budget from the Trump

1:25.5

administration cutting funds dramatically for everything but manned space.

1:32.4

And Congress pushing back the story of three big space projects once upon a time.

1:39.0

I welcome Brandon Wyckhardt of National Interest who writes on these matters and has a book about winning space,

1:45.4

about the contest between these three big players.

1:48.4

There's lots of commercial properties out there.

1:50.4

SpaceX comes to mind immediately.

1:52.9

But the big players still have budgets and still have ambitions, geopolitical ambitions.

1:58.1

Most recently, the Chinese launched what appears to be in geosynchronous orbit. That means

2:03.5

way up a refueling satellite capable of moving between satellites and taking care of them

2:10.6

in orbit to continue their life and or destroy them. In other words, it's a dual-use system.

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