Let's put this in perspective, please:
1) The Chinese venture was a government venture, while both US space ships were private ventures. Huge difference in the capitalization and development of it all.
2) The technical differences between the Chines moon orbit and the Virgin space plane are magnitudes apart in difficulty.
3)As far as the cargo rocket exploding, it happens all the time, and a gaurentee you that it has happened more than once on Chinese launch pads, and will happen again.
Not a huge difference. “Gov’t program” still uses private labort. Same in China as here.
If US manufacturing is so great, why is the smart phone in your pocket and the tablet you are reading all made in China?
Discounting China’s space program is like discounting NASA in the 60s. Both are organizations that attracted the best and brightest the country had to offer. NASA is now nothing but a welfare, make work entity, China is an up and coming force.
as for:
“3)As far as the cargo rocket exploding, it happens all the time, and a gaurentee you that it has happened more than once on Chinese launch pads, and will happen again.”
I guess US Rocket Scientists haven’t benefited from the 70 YEARS of US research and experience if they are still blowing up their products regularly.