The Chinese space budget is 135 times LESS than NASA's:

http://www.SpaceProjects.com/Chinese-space-program

Nevertheless, how much would you like to bet that Boeing & Lockheed will do whatever they can to use the Chinese Taikonaut mission to opportunistically fatten their budgets (and their buddy NASA's)?

What if we simply responded by politically demanding the implementation of pro-entrepreneurial reforms regarding space:

http://www.spaceprojects.com/reforms

We could achieve far more with far less, as other countries are demonstrating. This is worth considering, given that our $6.8 trillion dollar national debt is at an all time high:

http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdpenny.htm

along with our foreign trade deficit.

"The people have the government that they deserve."
-Ben Franklin