India & China to the moon

Check the link above. I'm curious as to whether this is the best use of the limited resources available for science in each of these countries. But it is a way of investing in science and engineering talent and infrastructure, and a way of keeping that talent at home. Also, better that India and China each advance its scientific and technological status (and its symbolic status as a superpower) via this instead of nuclear weaponry.

Also an odd coincidence that this International Conference on Exploration and Utilization of the Moon took place in Udaipur.