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>A Chinese rescue mission is improbable as the Shenzhou-20 crew faces no immediate danger and China could simply launch Shenzhou-22 earlier as a replacement, if needed.

This is just clickbait. There's no one seriously calling for this and it wouldn't work anyway.

The headline never matches the <title> so it seems to be a final stage in publishing. And the headline is always more catchy, though in this case it is just an annoying waste of time for a non story.

Called on by Musk fans not China.

Good grief what's happened to The Register? Rampant clickbait everywhere. Mike and John would be horrified.

El Reg has always had clickbaity titles. It's part of their charm. The only real difference with this one is the woeful lack of a groan-inducing pun.

Yeah. OTOH, the clickbait seems confined to the title & subtitle on this one. By the 4th para, the story has admitted that "called on" is just noise in the SpaceX-fan bubbleverse. And that the chance of it being technically optimal is ~0.0000% - even if the CCP was somehow utterly blind to the optics of such a "rescue".

>> OTOH, the clickbait seems confined to the title & subtitle on this one

LOL, the definition of clickbait, no? :)

    SpaceX fans quickly began calling for a rescue mission

So nobody of importance has called for this. Did somebody at El Reg have a quota of Musk-glazing they needed to fill?

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