Kyle Remington
March 14th, 2021
Over the weekend, Russian and Chinese space agencies signed an agreement to create an International Scientific Lunar Station. This also marks a time in which Russia turned down NASA's invitation to join the Artemis project that aims to put people back on the moon by 2024. This is following a 25 year US - Russian space cooperation that was created with the goal of post-Cold War reconciliation. This is just another piece of evidence pointing to the ever-so slowing "advancement" of the United States. The closer the Russia-China bond grows, the more it points to the failure of the Western approach to producing the desired results. It was said by a Russian chairman that their ties to China come after an unwillingness to join NATO and other international level agreements. It will be interesting to see how this plays out in regard to international politics. The US-Russia relationship more specifically will be under the microscope as we see what moves the Biden administration will make to move on in the future. It has already been said that Biden sees no illusions in Putin's Russia, and will make decisions that will best benefit the United States first, so we shall see how international space agreements play into this in the future.
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