the Chinese term is "taikonauts" No it isn't, the Chinese use yǔ háng yuán, or háng tiān yuán, or if providing english translations they use the term astronaut

the Chinese term is "taikonauts" No it isn't, the Chinese use yǔ háng yuán, or háng tiān yuán, or if providing english translations they use the term astronaut. English language news organisations outside China invented the term Taikonaut. edit - also the Chinese space program has a budget of between 0.5 and 1.5 billion dollars, depending on whose figures you believe. The national budget is between 350 billion dollars and a trillion dollars, again depending on who you believe, so the amount they spend on space doesn't seem to be that high. Now I agree that the Chinese government is pretty totalitarian, however I do not think that their space spending is a symptom of that, as if anything it is rather low for a moon shot.