Translation: China will build it, and Russia will claim "serious involvement". With the current leadership Roscosmos can only claim big great things in the fut

Translation: China will build it, and Russia will claim "serious involvement". With the current leadership Roscosmos can only claim big great things in the future. I mean, they'd already claimed they will have reached the Moon by 2014. 7 years later, and here we are. And in the current political climate Russian leadership will claim "us and China" for anything. Even if the participation of either side ends with signing a meaningless piece of paper. Edit: China may want access to technical info they are still lacking, and Russia will happily sell that info at a large discount just to claim cooperation with China.