China will select taikonauts for its first-ever manned moon landing mission from the current pool that has participated in spaceflight missions to the China Space Station, China's first astronaut ...

Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan.

The author is the head of China Lab ... by the relay satellite Queqiao (Magpie Bridge), which facilitated direct communication between Earth and the moon's far side. In 2020, Chang’e-5 collected ...