What he probably means is that, the small quantities of ice on moon is precious. If some country say US manages to extract it all for itself, other countries like China could be pissed off... But I kinda like such a race ;-) minus the war though...
> "If some country say US manages to extract it all for itself"
They found a bit of water essentially just by drilling down. If it's like that all over the moon, or even over an appreciable fraction of the moon, then getting it all for yourself is an unmanageably huge task.
Remember, the moon, while considerably smaller than the Earth, is still a very big place.
