According to the US "Space" news website, NASA Director Bill Nelson recently spoke at the 36th Space Symposium: Although there has actually been a space race between China and the United States, the United States still hopes to establish a "partnership" relationship with China in this regard, especially in recent years, the International Space Station is about to be retired, and because of the restrictions of US domestic laws, NASA cannot cooperate with China.
To this end, NASA's senior officials are very impatient, Congressional appropriations to NASA are pitifully small, at least according to their perception of the "space race" point of view, that little funding does not say competition, can ensure that NOW NASA does not starve to death, technical talent is not lost is already very difficult, in order to fight for some funding, NASA Director Bill Nelson is also fancy face, before the congressional hearing he requested an increase in the appropriation for NASA in fiscal year 2022, and even expressed support for this." Wolfe Clause "Perpetualizes."
The so-called "Wolf Clause", to put it bluntly, is a clause prohibiting NASA and China from cooperating in scientific research in the field of aerospace, which was proposed and passed by US Republican Congressman Frank Wolfe in 2011, becoming the substantive ban on NASA cooperation with China in the next decade.
The NASA director supported the perpetuation of the "Wolf Clause" at the hearing, of course, not that he really agreed with this very funny thing, but there was nothing he could do for money, so he just threatened to turn his head and regret it when he turned his head and turned his head in the face of China, and shyly asked for cooperation with China, which was just a show, and the ultimate purpose was for money.
In fact, NASA, which has a considerable degree of scientific research institution color, actually has a strong military color, because most of the aerospace technology can be directly applied to the military level, and the rockets and ballistic missiles that hit the sky are not fundamentally different, so even in the case that many projects in China's financial constraints in the millennium era have to be delayed, the Shenzhou series rockets of the space mouth are still not short of funds.
For cooperation with China in the field of space, the US Congress is basically a veto attitude that cannot be discussed, the reason is actually very simple, because China's space technology has been too weak before, and any cooperation with China in the field of space is likely to help China make a breakthrough in a key technology, and considering that the space field itself actually has a very strong military color, so the US Congress has long formed such an attitude that it cannot cooperate with China in the field of space.
NASA's considerations are different from Congress's, they have always wanted to cooperate with China in the field of space, firstly because NASA's funding after the end of the Cold War is getting smaller and smaller, on the other hand, in the millennium, China has been seeking to join the International Space Station, and the International Space Station is dominated by the United States, and they can use their influence on the International Space Station to influence China's scientific research projects, thereby influencing China's space technology development, and allowing China to save a lot of money.
To put it bluntly: bring China into the ditch and let China be the head of the wrongdoing! But it is a pity that in this matter, the United States has fully carried forward the excellent style of laymen guiding insiders, and the effective tactics of the technocrats have been killed by the congressional masters, and a "Wolf clause" has completely blocked all their thoughts.
This is why I called American politicians "fraudsters" above, their greatest ability is to speak, fool voters, as for the specific decision-making ability, it can almost be said that there is no, can not interfere with the work of technocrats is thankful, fundamentally can only be seen as the embodiment of the insecurity of democracy under populism.
Today, China's aerospace has made leaps and bounds in the past 10 years, when the DF-17 debuted in 2019, it announced that the absolute advantages of the United States in the field of space in the past no longer exist; then NASA is now cooperating with China, that is not to say that china is going to take China into the ditch, after all, they have no such ability, but really want to save money, after all, the International Space Station is going to retire in a few years, and the Congress gives them that little "meal money" is not enough to play a space station.
The next few decades do not plan in advance, a few years later NASA will face the extremely severe situation of Chinese aerospace in the millennium era, but now their prospects are not optimistic, after all, the landlords have no surplus food, the United States now looks very rich, but the financial aspect is actually stretched, Congress is unlikely to significantly increase NASA's budget, they may hope that NASA's technology will be used after the civilianization of NASA's technology to rely on SpaceX and other private space companies to support NASA's expenditure.
In contrast, congressional silver should be spent in more important places, such as the renewal of the army's active weapons and equipment, especially the renewal of the nuclear arsenal, etc., the entire empire to maintain hegemony requires too many resources, compared to NASA is actually good, after all, they do not need to go directly to the battlefield, so they do not need too much money.