Chandrayaan-3's successful landing pours oil into China's belly, denies claims - didn't even land around South Pole

Did India land spacecraft near moon's south pole? : ISRO's Chandrayaan-3 success has been praised by the whole world but China cannot digest this success. Every agency from NASA to the European Union has hailed the success of India and ISRO. India is the first country in the world to make a soft landing on the Moon's South Pole. But China is suffering from this success of India. A statement by the founder of China's Moon Mission Program said that reports of a soft landing of Chandrayaan-3 near the Moon's south pole are false.
China denies claims of Chandrayaan-3 landing
A member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has claimed that Chandrayaan-3's landing site is not at the South Pole of the Moon, nor has it landed around the South Pole of the Moon and near the Arctic Pole region. He said that India's rover landed at about 69 degrees south latitude. It is called the southern hemisphere part of the moon, not the south pole part. The Moon's south pole lies between 88.5 and 90 degrees latitude. Quentin Parker, director of HKU's Laboratory for Space Research, also dismissed India's success. He said that no definite claim can be made about where India's Chandrayaan landed, but we can definitely say that India's spacecraft did not land on the South Pole of the Moon.
Does this invalidate the claim of Chandrayaan-3 landing?
India-China Space Race: China is also preparing to send a mission to the South Pole of the Moon. This Chinese mission will be launched in 2026 to go to the South Pole of the Moon. Its main purpose is to land the Chang'e 7 rover near Shackleton Crater. So it can be said that China has repeatedly denied ISRO's claim of landing India's Chandrayaan-3 to appear to the world that its first mission to the South Pole was a success.
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