Foreign Relations & International Law

ChinaTalk: Hot Space Summer: China's Commercial Space Boom

Jordan Schneider
Friday, August 27, 2021, 11:48 AM

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In 2019, Thomas Colvin, Irina Liu and Shirley Han at the Science and Technology Policy Institute (https://www.ida.org/ida-ffrdcs/science-and-technology-policy-institute) were part of a team of researchers that published what is to date the most comprehensive English-language overview (https://www.ida.org/research-and-publications/publications/all/e/ev/evaluation-of-chinas-commercial-space-sector) of China’s growing space industry.

We discuss: Why Chinese space startups say business acumen is one of their biggest weaknesses, and how ITAR actually helped China’s space industry growThe space market in the developing worldThe state of my internet cables

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Jordan Schneider is the host of the ChinaTalk podcast and newsletter. He previously worked at Kwai, Bridgewater and the Eurasia Group. His Chinese landscape paintings "show promise."

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