China shares rare moon rocks with us despite the trade war

China’s space agency announced that scientists from the USA and the Allied nations would analyze the lunar rocks called up by their Chang’e missions.

The agency listed the Brown University and State University of New York in Stony Brook, both recipients of NASA financing, and the seven institutions granted permission to lend moon samples that China collected from the moon in 2020.

Shan Zhongde, head of the China National Space Administration, said on Thursday that the moon samples were “a common treasure for all humanity”.

The agency would “maintain an increasingly active and open attitude into international space exchange and cooperation, quoted from local media.” I think China’s circle of friends will continue to grow in space. “

In contrast, Chinese researchers were not able to access NASAS moon samples due to restrictions that were imposed on the cooperation of their space agency with China in the cooperation of their space agency.

The University of Cologne in Germany, Osaka University in Japan, Open University in Great Britain, the Paris Institute for Planettary Physics and the Research Commission for Spatial and Upper Atmosphere in Pakistan would also receive Chinese samples.

The Chinese agency had received inquiries to borrow the moon rocks from 11 nations, said Shan. “China’s Lunar Exploration program has always captured the principles of equality, mutual use, the peaceful use and cooperation of the WIN-WIN profits, which share development services with the international community,” he said.

“We look forward to the fact that scientists make more scientists worldwide, expand human knowledge together and benefit all of humanity.”

In 2020, China’s unpolished Chang’e 5 mission made it the third country after the Soviet Union and the USA to collect stones from the moon. In June last year, the Chang’e 6 mission was the first rehearsals from the other side of the moon.

In October last year, NASA boss Bill Nelson announced that Reuters American and Chinese Space Agencies had negotiated the conditions of Beijing’s loan contract for the Chang’e 5 Moon Rocks after they calmed down the American legislators that the discussions would not have any national security concerns.

“It seems that the United States are now quite closed, although we have been open in the past while we were closed and are open in the past. This is due to the increase in the general strength of our country and the resulting increase in self-confidence,” said Wu Weile, chief designer of the Chinas-Moon exploration program, said Reuter on Wednesday that the growth of the growth of the USA would not help.

In contrast to the USA, he said China had an open -space diplomatic policy and was open to cooperation in moon research with both developing countries and industrialized nations.

Observers noticed the borrowing of moon rocks, emphasized the continuous cooperation in space, although the cheaper geopolitical tensions escalated after US President Donald Trump escalated the imposition of tariffs for China on China in the early this month.

The United States has imposed tariffs of up to 245 percent on Chinese goods and rehabilitation Beijing with 125 percent tariffs for US products.

Although Mr. Trump has proposed a possible de -escalation in the trade war since then, Beijing has denied all ongoing negotiations between the two sides.

In the meantime, the US laws and security concerns require that NASA can work with the FBI for future sample deliveries.