China's space walk a fake?

[kandrathe]

It doesn't make sense, why would China do this? Maybe they are just following a trend?

They obviously aren't the first to do something like this. But the real question is, if it is a fake, then why create the lie in the first place? How would that actually effect the masses in any type of influential manner?

It doesn't make sense!

The foremost reason would be to tightly control the flow of information. If the flight goes well, then its good news. If the flight does not go well, then hey, its still good news. The important thing is that China is seen by the Chinese people as being the greatest nation on the planet.

China, as evidenced by the Olympics, takes special pains to make everything "look" perfect. Most people here in the USA don't understand the kind of nationalism that is engendered in a nation with history back to the 15th century BCE. I think they are pretty tired of being upstaged by a migrating band of barbarians from Europe, or their ages old barbarian nemesis from the northern steppes.