The difference is China uses spying to steal intellectual property, the US uses it to kill bad guys.

As it pertains to China "exceeding the US" you can keep drinking the kool-aid. Its clear you live in a 3rd world country or you're Chinese. From here in the good ol USA we have this thing called freedom which inspires us to push beyond limits rather than bow to them. China is a ticking time bomb...no way the people there are going to tolerate living in fear for much longer. Couple the birth rate issue with a simmering hunger for freedom and China is about to implode. Oh and as desperate as China is to be #1....guess what the world finally woke up and saw their systematic corruption and ruthless tactics.

A decade from now the US will be colonizing Mars with year round flights while China tries its best to copy and keep up. Maybe by then time the US puts humans on Mars; China will have its 2nd rover--this time twice the size of golf cart!

No shit sherlock. How do you think the Chinese media's coverage of US space conquest is? Do you think the Eastern Media is over there singing our praises and talking about the numerous breakthroughs that are being made on a regular basis?

Good job China...proud of you. All that hacking and soviet tech finally paid off. Can't wait to see "starship". Onward!

Lol...last I checked the USA has 5 rovers on Mars and China has 0. Last time they tried it got stuck in Earth's orbit and burned up. Whoops!