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China might be contemplating a 'takeover' of the Moon, says NASA administrator​

Chinese astronauts are busy learning how to destroy other countries' satellites, claims NASA's administrator Bill Nelson


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Updated Jul 3, 2022 | 03:56 PM IST

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China might be contemplating a "takeover" of the Moon as part of its military space program, NASA's administrator Bill Nelson has told newspaper Bild.

In an interview, Nelson claimed that the United States is now involved in a new race to space, with China this time. He emphasized that in 2035, Beijing might finish construction of its own Moon station and start experiments a year later.

Nelson claimed that we must be very concerned about China landing on the Moon and saying that it now belongs to the Peoples' Republic and everyone else should stay out, RT reported.

Claiming that China's space program is a "military" space program, Nelson explained that the competition for the south pole of the moon is especially intense: potential water deposits there could be used in the future for rocket-fuel production.

When asked by Bild what military purposes could China be pursuing in space, Nelson claimed that Chinese astronauts are busy learning how to destroy other countries' satellites.

Despite Beijing's assurances that its ambitious space program has purely peaceful purposes, Nelson has long been a tough critic of China's policy in space, RT reported.

In April, he accused Chinese officials of refusing to work with the US on its operations and of concealing important data. Earlier, however, he acknowledged that NASA abides by a 2011 law that prohibits the agency from engaging in direct collaboration with the Chinese government or any China-affiliated organizations without explicit approval from Congress and federal law enforcement authorities. Chinese officials have pointed to that ban, called the Wolf Amendment, as "unfortunate" and an impediment to direct cooperation with NASA.

 
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Conceptually very interesting. I would like to see a movie on this sometime
 
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NASA is no more a science and technology driven organization. It is driven by politics and run by monkey.
 
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I don't understand why Americans are so afraid of China's rise.

In fact, Americans and Chinese do not have much historical hatred. The two countries have been allies for most of the time, the only Korean War, but the Chinese people do not hate the Americans.

The alternation between China and the USA will be as peaceful as the USA and Britain, and Americans need not be afraid.
 
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I don't understand why Americans are so afraid of China's rise.

In fact, Americans and Chinese do not have much historical hatred. The two countries have been allies for most of the time, the only Korean War, but the Chinese people do not hate the Americans.

The alternation between China and the USA will be as peaceful as the USA and Britain, and Americans need not be afraid.
It's based on race, religion and ideology. Americans just can't accept people who are different in above three inclinations to raise to be equal with them. This is best summarized by a famous Chinese America scholar 金灿荣 who studied US for more than 30 years and travelled to US more than 100 times. Foremost, Americans are racist.
 
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The world is destroyed and looted by the white man but hey china is going to the moon so it must be something bad. Its funny when the biggest evil objects to china.
 
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Colonial-minded Bill Nelson hypocritically hypes China's 'takeover' of the moon
By Global Times

Published: Jul 03, 2022 08:14 PM

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator Bill Nelson testifies during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on NASA's fiscal year 2022 budget request at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on June 15, 2021 in Washington, DC. Photo: VCG

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator Bill Nelson testifies during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on NASA's fiscal year 2022 budget request at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on June 15, 2021 in Washington, DC. Photo: VCG

NASA administrator Bill Nelson warned on Saturday about China's space program, saying "We should be very concerned that China will land on the moon and say: 'This is ours now and you are going to stay out.'" As the chief of the US space agency and a former payload specialist who has flown in space, Nelson, who is supposed to be mindful of the future of humanity, is too narrow-minded by hyping the "China threat" in space.

Song Zhongping, a Chinese military expert and TV commentator, told the Global Times that the US is in fact viewing the moon with a colonial mentality. China has always made efforts to build a community with a shared future for humankind. The country always believes that the moon does not belong to any country alone, but to all humanity. The fierce competition in space between the US and Soviet Union during the Cold War was to seek world technological hegemony, while China's space program is for peaceful purposes, believing that the progress of human civilization should rely on the joint improvement of the whole international community, rather than the monopoly of science and technology. This is the essential difference between China and the US.

Nelson, in his conversation with Bild, added that "China's space program is one military space program," and unlike the American "Artemis" program, the Chinese "do not want to share the results of their research and the moon to use together," which is unbelievably assertive: the US itself has been eyeing militarizing space, it accuses China of doing so.

China and Russia first released the joint draft Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space treaty in 2008 and amended it in 2014, aimed at banning the deployment of weapons in space, but it was rejected both times by the US. Isn't it the US that is standing in the way of space weapons non-proliferation?

For the US to cooperate with China, including asking China to share data and samples from the moon, it first needs to repeal the Cox Report, which accused China of "covert operations within the US during the 1980s and 1990s," as well as the Wolf Amendment, passed by the US Congress in 2011, which prohibits NASA from using government funds to engage in direct, bilateral cooperation with the Chinese government and China-affiliated organizations from its activities without explicit authorization.

As a result, "protecting its American counterpart" becomes a realistic consideration for China's National Space Administration, since the unfortunate US restrictions on cooperation prevent NASA from getting lunar samples obtained by China's Chang'e probe. It is thus clear that the US is always following double standards on various issues including in space, that is, morally accusing China while practically refusing to cooperate with it. Its original intention is quite straightforward: as a country that wants to achieve global hegemony by monopolizing technologies, the US is concerned about China's accelerated scientific and technological development.

Moreover, the US space program is plagued with problems. Internally, the government changes the country's route and policies from one president to the next, wasting plenty of time and money. And the increasingly prominent racial discrimination and the suppression of minorities in the US has led to the loss of many minority talents, with the aging problem standing out in the US space field, which are the biggest constraints on the development of US space industry, Song noted.

The US used to be an innovative country, but now it is somewhat sluggish on the road to innovation due to institutional constraints. Essentially, the US political party system has resulted in a country that is not able to focus on big things, using space programs as an ornament, or even a sacrifice, for partisanship.

Externally, the US wants to keep the so-called core technology firmly in its own hands, and refuses to coordinate with others, including not only China and Russia, but also many of its allies, for fear of "core technology leakage." The door to the world is shut by the US itself, the result of which is the pace of US development in space industry slowing down.

The US is now regarding China as its imaginary enemy at all times to contain China, which will undoubtedly cost it a lot. The US is now in a de facto arms race in space, which will do nothing good to its space industry. Song pointed out that only when the world's major developed countries in science and technology join together can we provide more impetus to the progress of human civilization. This is exactly the Chinese idea of building a community with a shared future for humankind, but this forward thinking is apparently not a choice of the US now.

 
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the idea of maintaining a permanent lunar base should be given serious consideration, around 2040s perhaps
 
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In April, he accused Chinese officials of refusing to work with the US on its operations and of concealing important data.

The word of democracy, the politician.

Well, everyone knows that it's USA who blocked China from ISS.

Now, it's claiming that it's China who is blocking USA.

I think democracy will be far better if there are no political parties and politicians.
 
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I went to a supermarket today, almost dropped my eyes on the floor. "chinese want to occupy the Moon", this is on the front page of Bild, the biggest tabloid of Germany.


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