China and Ukraine have signed a 5-year space research cooperation deal that encompasses 69 projects.

China and Ukraine have signed a 5-year space research cooperation deal that encompasses 69 projects. The work is valued at “over 70 million,” reports Ukraine’s signatory, the State Space Agency. SpaceWatch.Global, a news site based in Bern, Switzerland, writes of Thursday’s deal for new information exchanges: “China has been pushing into countries like Ukraine for some time. Ukraine has a lot of technological knowhow that could (presumably) be acquired at relatively low prices, and with relatively less political resistance.” In 2016, an analysis by Kyiv’s Institute of World Policy totaled 21 China-Ukraine space contracts, worth $67 million.