Building a community with a shared future for mankind was an elevation of Hua Nation's major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics, and also one of the theories of governance proposed by the Hua delegation at the United Nations General Assembly in 2015.
Hua Nation had no ambition to achieve global hegemony. By comparison, the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind better suited Hua Nation's interests.
Of course, Lu Zhou did not need to worry about such matters.
As a scholar, he only needed to focus on his research.
That said, from a scholar's perspective, he was naturally pleased to see his homeland integrating into the larger family of international society and using its own unique voice to influence that family...
The meeting lasted a full hour. The two spoke at length and discussed many things.
Owens was immensely surprised by the prospects for the future Moon Village that Lu Zhou had described, while Lu Zhou was deeply interested in some of Owens's ideas on space resource development and commercial operating models.
Technology could provide humanity with tools to transform and make use of nature, but how to make better use of those tools was also no small field of study.
"...The Living-Planet symposium will be held in Bragg, Czech Republic. If you have time, we sincerely invite you to attend."
"If I have the time, I'll certainly consider it."
Lu Zhou smiled and nodded, but did not give a definite answer.
Owens did not press the matter either. He smiled slightly, ended the topic, shook hands with Lu Zhou, and said goodbye.
The day after Lu Zhou and Owens concluded their meeting, news that Hua Nation and the European Union had reached a consensus on lunar resource development flooded the internet.
Renren Daily, in particular, featured