Musk, the richest man in the world, is good at Chinese. When he was at a meeting on global food crisis（危机）, Musk quoted（引述）Cao Zhi's seven-step poem, " Pods burned to cook peas, Peas weep in the pot, Grown from same root, Why boil us so hot? "
Besides Musk, it's amazing to know that an Italian astronaut working on the International Space Station wrote on her social media, "The universe is so big and has so much stuff（事物）to watch, and it's great to see and know and drink."
Before she came to China, she had learned to speak Chinese. She quoted the Preface to the Works of Lanting《兰亭集序》because she had a good friend who was a Sinologist（汉学家）. Before the flight, her Sinologist friend suggested that she quote this line from the Preface to the Lanting Collection.
Chinese belongs to an elite（精英的）culture in European and American countries. Ordinary people in Europe and America have no interest in Chinese. They think Chinese is really too difficult for them to learn. However, in the elite circles of Europe and America, it is different. No matter in business and space, or science research. Not only the European astronauts have to learn Chinese, but also the workers of the Saudi Arabian who work closely with China. Even American astronauts need to learn Chinese ahead of time（提前）.
More and more European and American elites start to learn Chinese because the future of China's global influence will be bigger and bigger. They plan ahead and plan ahead for their children.
Learning Chinese is necessary if astronauts from around the world want to work on China's space station. This is why the Italian astronaut learned Chinese.
The goal of China's plan to land on the moon is to build a permanent base（永久基地） on the moon. Any astronaut needs to learn at least two languages, either in an American or Chinese spaceship. There is no third choice in the future. Chinese is directly connected to the career and future. Therefore, the elite of Europe and America think they really can't fit the situation if they do not learn Chinese.
