Re: Is it just me,
Don't get me wrong, I'm not underestimating the Chinese as "stupid and incapable." Of their 1.2 billion people I'm sure there are a lot of talented and educated people who are capable of pulling it off.
What I'm saying that they *can* develop a manned lunar outpost if they want (hell, so can we). But by 2015? I don't know if that's realistic or financially feasible considering they got more than six times the people to feed than the U.S. does.