We pay a lot of attention here to what is going on in the US (and to a
lesser extent Europe). Meanwhile, China is continuing to develop its
own national space program.

The latest development is their Tianzhou 1 logistics craft. With
twice the cargo capacity of a Progress or Dragon, it can also (at the
same time) deliver two tonnes of fuel. This is a step along the way
to the construction and support of their next space station (and the
logistics module is actually bigger than their current one). That new
station, with an initial mass of around 80 tonnes spread over three
modules (a hab module and two science modules) will support a crew of
six. Scheduled to go on line in the 2020's (when ISS is going off
line) and coincident with their launch of a large space telescope and
with lunar landings and Mars probes scheduled for 2030, China looks to
be growing their capabilities and working to a coherent plan,
something we seem to lack over here.




--
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable
man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore,
all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
--George Bernard Shaw