It is not a necessary condition for us to do Apollo again to keep the Chinese from owning the moon.
They don’t have to literally own it to have an insurmountable economic and tactical advantage because of it. I don’t trust them to abide by treaty stipulations, particularly if they’re the only ones with a presence there, and if they develop HE3-based fusion, you can kiss our children’s future goodbye. As if all that wasn’t enough, we have a very real and present crisis of a potential russian attempt to divert Apophis. Again, that’s something we can’t afford to leave up to foreign nations.