China's Position on the International Space Station

Tianzhou-6 will probably lift off between May the 10th and 13th on top of a long March 7 rocket. There are currently three astronauts living on the Tian Gong space station. China was already on the pathway to building its own space station, but was also open to joining the ISS. The European Space Agency doesn't have the funding or political backing to engage into space station projects at the moment.