The biggest advantage they have is they won’t care if some astronauts die in failed attempts.
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If they do, no one will ever learn about it, other then an other purge of the Rocket Forces brass.
The Chinese could go that way—or they could go the martyr route—or hide it until they had success and then put out the martyr story.
This is new to them—so we will have to see how they play it.
I have been looking around trying to find an objective discussion of this topic and can’t find one—everybody seems to have an axe to grind.
This is the calmest and fairest article I could find:
https://spacenews.com/china-sets-out-clear-and-independent-long-term-vision-for-space/
However it does not directly address the question of how China will deal with space casualties.