China has confirmed it is on track to land a rover on the Moon later this year (theregister.co.uk)

Nice idea, but we can't afford to join the race without an ideological incentive. If China were an ideological Marxist state, that might help, but they aren't any more, an apt commentary on the intelligence of the Chinese people and their leadership.

Pretty soon now, the Chinese will be looking down on us in a literal as well as figurative sense.