All groups can make lunar civilization, stop wasting money on useless “brag”
China needs smarter planners for moon projects. An orbital infrastructure for the Moon would let ANY groups get communication, memory and powerful computing to projects and experiments on the far side. Real planning, collaboration, real infrastructure can help whole generations work efficiently and with much less risk.
Every country “doing its own thing” where the whole is fragmented and not one system, by plan and cooperation – is stupid at human evolution scale. China lets a tiny few people, who do NOT know everything, make decisions, when they could easily enable hundreds of millions to help on projects of lunar, global and heliospheric scale. India is even worse, because they waste more people. One ordinary human, enabled with global knowledge and continuously improving open methods, can be valued, can be smarter than any fake AI. A living wage for a hundred million in India working toward the future. Another hundred million in dozens of countries. The best AIs with memory and tools themselves to explore in tandem. And the whole can be planned and monitored and made fair for the whole human (and related) species.