A long tradition of being used on two previous occasions then?

"They are apparently supplied with a traditional remedy to combat the effects of "space motion sickness""

Really? Traditional Chinese remedies for space sickness?

How clever of them, for a nation on it's third space flight...

I had thought that the Chinese did have an official term of their own, even in English, for their astronauts, but it wasn't 'Taikonaut', which has only been unofficially advocated by some Chinese individuals. However, according to Wikipedia, their own terms, yuhangyuan and hangtianyuan are only used in Chinese, and in English, they just use 'astronaut'. My Google search also turned up the use of 'taikonaut' in a recent Xinhua report, so this seems to have changed.

"After all, if the Russians can have "cosmonaut"..."

But of course - "cosmos" undisputedly is a russian word.