In a recent paper I explored the use of maps that have been created of Africa showing China’s projects across the continent. I argue that, by overlaying Chinese flags on maps depicting Africa ...

But not before planting China's flag on the Moon's far-less-studied hemisphere that always faces away from Earth — a symbolic move that underlines just how far the country's space program has ...

On June 2, China's Chang'e 6 robotic lander touched down in the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) Basin on the moon's mysterious far side. The Chinese national flag soon unfurled from the firmly footed ...

So the design included not just an upright pole but a perpendicular extension like a shower curtain rod, so the flag could hang fully unfurled, all its stars and stripes showing. Now China ...