China Wants to Build Moonbase as Part of Five-Year Plan to Become 'Space Power'

China has outlined big space ambitions for the coming five years, looking into a "near-Earth object defense system" and setting up an international research station on the moon. The plans were outlined in a government white paper released late last month by China's State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China. Its authors noted that over the next five years China will "start