Special to CosmicTribune.com, November 1, 2023

Geostrategy-Direct

By Richard Fisher

A mid-October 2023 conference in China included a briefing on a concept to build an underground Moon Base that also provides an opportunity for China to take a serious dual-use military capability to the Moon.

An Oct. 25 article on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) sponsored “Kunlunce” web page offered details of a briefing given at an Oct. 15 Space Science Conference held in Daqing, China, by Academician Mei Hongyuan of the Extraterrestrial Architecture Research Institute of the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), Communist China’s premier university created for the development of military technology.

Academician Mei’s brief was titled, “China’s Lunar Space Station and Development of Lunar Molten Cave Base Plan.”

The briefing also included a well-produced video; Mei’s work is most likely sponsored by the Chinese government in support of China’s broader space program.

In essence, Mei assumes that China develops a “Cis-Lunar Shuttle” between the Earth and the Moon that also serves orbiting lunar space station, similar to the “Gateway” lunar space station program of the United States-led Artemis Program.

China’s lunar space station would then be armed with missiles with non-nuclear warheads for the purpose of bombing the surface of the Moon, to create a hole to gain access to a Lunar Lava Tube just beneath the surface.

The idea of “bombing” the Moon for scientific pursuit is not new: on Oct. 9, 2009 the U.S. Lunar Creator Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) Moon-orbiting satellite relayed data from a plume of Moon dust near the Moon’s South Pole, created by the 5,000 pound Centuar rocket stage that created an explosion equivalent to 2,000 pounds of TNT, to confirm the presence of water ice.

However, Academician Mei’s concept goes another step further in proposing the development of a distinct medium size missile carried by the Chinese Lunar Space Station that can be fired when desired at target locations on the Moon.

Of course, the missile carried by the Chinese Lunar Space Station could also be used to attack and substantially damage the Moon bases of other nations, to include the those of the United States and its Artemis Accords partners.

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