The reality is that China is on the brink of total collapse and once they do collapse, the resulting global economical shock-waves and the loss of a peer competitor means that America is gonna to cancel all their Lunar/Mars mission and most space related R&D and missions. We're never ever getting off this rock. Artemis III is never gonna to happen.

China is collapsing hard

On a scale of 1(not over) to 10(it's over) how over is it for China.

New zeihan just dropped. China is so unstable that they might collapse any day now