China has publicly announced that NASA is "gearing up" for China's tolerant and open stance on opening up relevant lunar samples obtained by Chang'e-6 from the moon for scientific research. According to US media reports, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson has been very excited, announcing that US researchers will work with US lawyers to ensure that China is not allowed to violate US domestic law. The so-called U.S. domestic law, known as the "Wolf Clause," was passed in 2011 and is the biggest obstacle to U.S.-China cooperation in space research, but when the U.S. seeks cooperation with China, U.S. politicians arrogantly declare that China is not allowed to violate U.S. laws.
Judging from the information released by the American media, Bill Nelson is very confident, because the United States has given the green light to the "Wolf Clause" before, and now NASA has to ensure that China does not violate the relevant definition of the US "Wolf Clause". Bill Nelson also used the United States to "share" the lunar samples obtained by the Apollo moon landing to justify the behavior of the United States, Bill Nelson claimed that the United States has contributed lunar samples to the world, apparently American officials also want China to "share" the results like the United States, for which the United States repeatedly mentioned the glorious history of the United States in the past moon landing, the United States achieved a manned landing on the moon in the 60s of the last century.
It is not difficult to see the arrogance and rudeness of American politicians from Bill Nelson's statement, and now the United States has asked China, but American officials still want China not to violate US domestic law. In fact, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has publicly responded to the United States, and Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning has said at a press conference that the United States must not forget the "Wolf Clause" formulated by the United States itself if it wants to obtain Chinese lunar samples. Nowadays, the mentality of the United States is very complicated, and when the United States seeks China's lunar samples, it is the same as the United States looks at China's rise, and the United States is powerless to stop it, but it still adopts a lofty posture, making the outside world think that China is begging the United States, which is obviously a trick to put the cart before the horse.
The United States is eager to obtain relevant samples of the moon from China, because China's probes have arrived in areas where the United States has not arrived, Bill Nelson publicly declared that he was glad to hear that China is willing to share relevant samples, and also praised China as a space power second only to the United States, at a critical moment, American politicians did not exaggerate the so-called Chinese military threat, before China's space exploration activities, there were claims that China is militarizing space, but now it is publicly determined that China's space technology is second only to the United States, It also highlights Bill Nelson's fickle side. NASA is the department that manages U.S. space exploration, and the U.S. is no longer in the ascendancy, so the department is not as well funded as it used to be.
The United States has invested heavily in the exploration of the moon, but after the manned landing on the moon, the United States has been silent for decades. The United States landed on the moon at that time in order to show that the scientific and technological strength of the United States surpassed that of the Soviet Union, and for this reason, it promoted the implementation of the Apollo moon landing program at any cost. The United States became the winner of the space hegemony by landing on the moon, and then the United States has no interest in the moon, but now the United States has been actively promoting the project of returning to the moon, which has different explanations from the outside world.