This is pathetic. Your people are dying, America, and this is what you do instead? Childish baby shit. So glad this empire is crumbling under its own bullshit. It's just a shame its bringing innocent people down with it.
"What I'm concerned about is that we find water on the south pole of the moon, China gets there, and China says this is our area. You can't come here, it's ours."
Well now we know what America’s plan for the moon is
It would be funny if China psyoped the US into going to the moon, and China successfully makes it to Mars a week later
And just to salt the wound, the Chinese ship makes a stop at the US lunar base to top off the Helium-3 tank, throw a party and invite the US base workers, and give them a care package of wine and sweets because they had extra and figured the US could use a win.
More like a space chase, since the US has only ever chased after AES states once they start making serious progress.
China also has far larger ambitions for space than just landing on a rock. They want to utilize asteroids and, perhaps also the moon, for mining and possibly more, since that type of activity wouldn't harm our ecosystems back home.