The silliness isn't the safety. NASA would contract them is they were crap. Its the fact that the Chinese space program is trying. We blew up a lot of rockets before we got it right. I was implying the irony of the country that won the space race now going into space on its former rival's rockets.
Update: It's alive!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/13/china_moon_rover_jade_rabbit_alive/
Oh, Jade Rabbit. I knew you'd come back. 
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