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>>11123391
I think your really underplaying the difficulties of making Starship as advertised a reality. Also, there’s currently no evidence suggesting any Chinese entity is planning to build a Starship-equivalent. Although, one of the major bureaus has talked about having all it’s vehicles be fully reusable by 2035; but I’ve heard more about nuclear-powered space Shuttles from the Chinese, than I have anything about Starship. At the end of the day, the Chinese usually look at what works for other countries and put their own spin on it e.g. LM-5 is similar to the Ariane 5 in design, but uses liquid-fuel boosters which they have more experience with than solids, their next-generation crew capsule is very similar looking to Dragon 1 but is also designed for lunar spaceflight, their new crewed launcher (pic related) uses clustered engines which are becoming popular in the West etc.