Record of a lecture from the series Fridays from 11 August 2023 (postponed publication by the author) on the topic: How will the Chinese cosmic dragon eat us? Before the end of the decade, Chinese astronauts will walk on the moon, and shortly after, an automated probe will bring back rock samples from Mars. For this, own orbital station, space shuttle or plan to build a lunar base. Before launch, it has a large space telescope, probes to asteroids, comets or beyond the boundaries of the Solar System. And as a cherry on top, a number of commercial companies that develop their own rockets, satellites and other technology or services. All this and much more is today's astronautics in the People's Republic of China. Lecturer: Ing. Tomáš Přibyl, columnist in the field of cosmonautics and author of many non-fiction books (Death Was Named Challenger, The Day Columbia Didn't Return, Treasures of Cosmonautics, Conquest of the Moon, etc.). He personally visited all NASA space centers, met more than 260 cosmonauts, saw all American space shuttles launch. He works as the curator of aviation and cosmonautics at the Technical Museum in Brno. (Annotation and cv source: Pátečníci.net, author) Further information: www.technicalmuseum.cz www.patecnici.net / patecnici.cyklus Current information about other lectures: From 6/5/2022 regular lectures Pátečníci - Sisyphus live again, i.e. publicly with a debating audience in the auditorium of the Faculty of Science, UK - from October 2023 until further notice in Krajinova auditorium B14 in Benátská 2, on the second mezzanine (until then these lectures were Viničné 7, B3 on the ground floor on the left - the same as Biological Thursdays, or B7 in on the second floor opposite the staircase). In addition to recording, there should also be an online stream, information will be available on the unchanged links on FB address: / patecnici.cyklus and YouTube channel: / páteknici sisyfos tinyurl.com/YtPatecnici Support for the Páteknici project: https://www.startovac .cz/patron/vasi-... --- Note on automatically inserted unsolicited advertising content on YouTube during playback: Dear friends, the LLionTV YouTube channel has been non-monetized since its inception in 2013 and therefore without any financial contribution from the community YouTube, for example, for the number of views or viewing time. He has always followed this ethical principle and has a firm will to keep it that way, not only out of respect for the presenters and performers, who are the main creators of the content, but also out of a higher moral principle. Until recently, the channel operated in this way was hosted on YouTube without added ads, and when this policy changed, I at least hoped that if the profit generated in this way is attributed only to a third party, i.e. the administrator / owner of this medium, the amount of unintentionally uploaded content would be at a reasonable and acceptable level . Unfortunately, this is not the case, and I'm afraid that no distinction is even made between paid and non-paid channels. So far I don't even know of any way to avoid embedded ads in any acceptable way or at least reduce them to an acceptable level. I definitely don't want to support this paradigm, that's why I don't even encourage you to subscribe to a service such as YouTube Premium (CZK 179 / month), which allows you to watch videos without ads. If anyone can think of a reasonable solution, I would greatly appreciate any advice, eg to the email listed in the LLionTV end log of most of this creator's videos.