This would be a great US engineering accomplishment but it's a terrible Chinese accomplishment because it may be used in war. As if the US is not capable of and eager to weaponise absolutely everything!
This shows China is ahead in the space race.
This shows China is ahead in the space race.
But, it's also starting from farther behind. But, it's also starting with more modern technology. But, it's also working under a command economy.
And that's not including US private space companies. Read: SpaceX.
https://essp.nasa.gov/earth-pathfinder-quests/projects/activ...
If we include space telescopes, missions on and around other planets, space weather monitoring, solar exploration, and such NASA appears to be ahead.
Saying "progressing at a fast rate than NASA" is just word games since they start from such a lower level and doesn't reflect the reality on the ground.
EDIT: I provided the above as supporting evidence not to start an argument.
Arecibo vs. FAST
China recently deployed their own Space Station and Mars Rover, etc...
Political and ideological biases aside, it's pretty obvious which space program has more vitality in the current decade. Both sides certainly have novel tech, but what about the bigger trends?
How is BeiDou evidence for what you claim?
> Arecibo vs. FAST
Lots of other scopes that have capabilities that neither A or F have.
> China recently deployed their own Space Station and Mars Rover, etc...
These aren't examples of them being ahead. They may, however, may be examples of them reaching parity.
China has something like >1000% as many people working in technical industry jobs as USA, and a massive trade surplus. The two economies are not even comparable. One prints the global reserve currency and smears it around in FIRE, the other makes things.