If they were truly concerned, they’d start giving it the funding it deserves.

Gee whiz, maybe we should have been properly funding our space program all of these years instead of wasting it on making the military industrial complex filthy fucking rich and the world less secure overall?

US: continually decides to not fund scientific exploration of space

Also US: GUYS! BE AFRAID! ANOTHER COUNTRY DID DECIDE TO SPEND MONEY ON IT! NOW WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO IF…UM…WELL, I GUESS IF THEY TAKE OVER SPACE…? Or…wait, what are we concerned about? Ah, fuck it. Cut NASA’s budget again. We got genocide to fund and taxes to cut for the wealthy.

Huh. I wonder if funding NASA better might help, Republicans?

One can only hope.

The last time that happened, we explored the moon and developed the space shuttle program. We got microchips and memory foam.

Ideological rivals encourage congress throwing money into big science. Apollo returned $14 on the dollar. It's a good investment.

Have they considered renaming it X and firing all their expert staff to make NASA more profitable?

This is a good thing. Competition with the USSR made NASA what it is.

Who would have imagined that decades of funding cuts and pressure to rely upon Musk would allow another nation to take the lead? (Sarcasm)

Dang maybe we should take a fraction of the trillions we spend on the military to fund scientific research, and also health and education while we're at it so we'd get even more potential scientists.

I'm sure throwing more money and contracts at Musk and SpaceX is going to help solve the problem any day now. /s

Export all your technology and jobs to cheaper labour to make more profit. Now you will slowly become bankrupt, as no one can afford the enshitification products and services.

So they had no issue relying on Russia to service the ISS ever since they shutdown the space shuttle, but now they're afraid of China... doing space science faster?

Ignoring the fact that this is not even a real concern, maybe don't spend morbillions on free munitions for Israel or Lockheed's next stupid idea.

They defunded NASA so hard that they started hallucinating about going back to the moon with 15% of the Apollo budget.

Looking at their space station, I think China already has overtaken NASA.

Anyone concerned that the US will be "overtaken" by anything coming out of China right now needs to go read about what's been happening in China for the last 5 years.