Otherwise you would be supporting Ares V instead of the smaller Direct Launcher. I have said from day one that a manned Mars program and protecting Earth from impacts are synergistic due to the development of a larger launch vehicle. You have falsely tried to make the programs antagonistic for 10 years.

You've got no proof of your CAPS claim I see. I actually believe the Chinese are smart enough to due the same cost benefit analysis as those actually involved with detecting NEOs in the US or at least read their reports unlike some posters here who would abitrarily prefer to spend billions rather than millions to detect NEOs. While CAPS does include a mitigation scheme as well as a detection scheme it is also highly questionable in terms of cost effectiveness. Even if it were to turn out to be the best method which seems doubtfull (given difficulty in pointing the Moon, and being blind to half the sky), much less expensive methods should be tested first. You could test all the other options on the table for far less than implementing an untested CAPS style diversion scheme.

Regards,
Mark