China refutes NASA head’s Chinese ‘moon takeover’ lies, opposes weaponization, arms race in space

Shenzhen TV: NASA’s administrator Bill Nelson said in an interview with German media the other day that China’s space program is a military space program and China might be planning a takeover of the Moon. He also said that China stole designs and technologies of other countries and one task of China’s space station is to learn how to destroy other countries’ satellites. Do you have any comment? Zhao Lijian: This is not the first time that the NASA administrator has lashed out at China in disregard of facts. Some US officials have spoken irresponsibly to misrepresent the normal and legitimate space endeavors of China. China firmly rejects such remarks.  As the head of US space administration, the official must be quite familiar with the disreputable history of US space program, including its role in creating space junk, stoking space arms race and disrupting global strategic balance and its enormous threat to the peaceful use of outer space.  In recent years, the US openly def