For some reason my mind created the inverse title “US loudly preparing to NOT build giant telescope”, but that’s pretty bang on for the state of the two countries lol.

You can tell they're serious because they've given it a horribly mundane name, as is tradition for terrestrial optical and radio telescopes.

They're also gonna launch a pretty big and pretty cool space telescope called {巡天|xuntian} to co-orbit with {天宫|tiangong} for ease of maintenance

If my tropico experience is anything to go by, this provides a bonus to operation planning speed from the pirate cove