From a Wall Street Journal story by Natasha Khan headlined “In New Moon Race, Russian Crash Shows the Only U.S. Rival Is China”:

A new Cold War-style competition has put the moon back at the center of global space ambitions, but the U.S. has a new chief rival.

More nations and companies are venturing into space, crowding the calendar with planned robotic landings for lunar research. But, like the scramble to plant boots on the moon in the 1960s, the race to establish a base on the lunar surface boils down to a contest between the world’s superpowers. Only this time it is Beijing, not Moscow, that Washington is up against.