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>>16006632
China doesn't even plan to have a Starship of their own until the 2040s.
Everyone who isn't SpaceX is going to be irrelevant.
There's even an argument to be made that they already are considering that the entire rest of the world is less than 20% of the upmass to LEO. And that's just with Falcon 9. Imagine how bad it's going to get for everyone else when SpaceX has Starship. And they'll have a 20 year lead to do whatever they want.
There is no "catching up." It's a moving target. They'll be playing catchup for the rest of time.

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