失去领先地位
在美国已经停止计划的情况下，中国于2020年推进载人登月项目并最终实现从月球表面运送航天员并不是件好事，她在回复一封邮件时说道，“叫停载人空间飞行对中国提高其领导地位有着长期的重大意义”。
China, which made its first successful manned flight in 2003 aboard the Shenzhou spacecraft, plans to put a capsule on the moon in 2013 and have the technology for a manned mission in 2020, Xu Shijie, a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference said on March 3 in Beijing. The country plans to launch its own orbital station in about 2020.
中国政协委员徐世杰3月3号在北京说，2003年中国已经首次实现神州飞船的载人航天飞行，2013年将计划在月球投放太空舱并将在2020年掌握载人登月技术。
The module to be launched today will be used to practice docking techniques needed before moving to the next phase of building a station, according to the website of China Manned Space Engineering, the country’s space agency.
国家航天局中国载人航天工程网站报道，今天发射的目标飞行器将被用于下阶段建设空间站之前需要的对接技术。
Military Shadow
While China’s achievements are lauded at home, a lack of transparency over budgets and possible military applications of space technology have raised concerns overseas. CMSE is led by Chang Wanguan, a member of China’s top military body, the Central Military Commission.
“There’s no separation between their ostensibly civilian program and their military program,” said Dean Cheng, a research fellow on Chinese security at the Heritage Foundation, a Washington think tank that describes its mission as designing and promoting conservative public policies.
The Chinese government is “convinced this is the next phase of major competition,” said Huang Jing, a professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. China believes “whoever dominates in outer space will dominate in military warfare.”
军事阴影
尽管中国的成就在国内广为称颂，缺乏透明的预算以及可能的空间技术的军事应用在海外引起了很多担忧。中国载人航天工程是由中国的最高军事机构中央军委委员张万贯领导。
传统基金会中国安全研究员程说：”他们表面上的平民计划与他们的军事计划之间没有区别。”该基金会是华盛顿智囊团，介绍了其设计和促进保守公共政策的使命。
中国政府是“下一阶段的主要竞争对手，”新加坡国立大学李光耀公共政策学院的教授黄静说，”中国知道，谁在外层空间占领了主导地位，才能主宰军事战争。”
Benefit for All
The government’s intentions are entirely peaceful, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei told reporters in Beijing today. The country aims “to contribute to peaceful utilization of space for the benefit of all human kind,” he said.
The more that can be done to increase the civilian component of China’s space program the better, Mark Stokes, executive director of the Arlington, Virginia-based Project 2049 Institute, said by telephone. The U.S. should find ways to cooperate without aiding the military side and is capable of parsing the two, he said.