Interesting that the top comment on the great achievement of a country that had the majority of people in abject poverty 30 years ago, is an old trope that downplays their massive advances in technology that's leaving some in the west look silly. E.g. green energy production, China is mocked as a place full of smog but their government realised smog is bad but necessary for power so they had to keep being smoggy until they spent hundreds of billions on green energy. Their turbine and solar panel production puts the west to shame, and their installation numbers are nuts.

There's a reason the American president is literally having to ban American companies from having stuff made in China, the American government hates that China has vastly superior hi tech industry and is trying to force American investors to build that capability in the US.

Does any powerful government?

The reason you are downvoted is everyone gives their own powerful government a pass and calls whataboutery if someone mentions it, it's so predictable that this is the comment would appear on an article about Chinese space investment on a predominantly American website.

Maybe you're a realist who would call out all governments, but most people aren't.

The scientific publication industry needs to be completely reviewed IMO.

From direct knowledge of someone in a publishing company which charges money for access to stuff that could literally be on an open website, the whole thing is actually an industry and a lot of articles "peer review" just means "is this internally consistent and typo free?" and reviews are rarely done by actual peers with the niche knowledge required to review.

Perhaps a single NGO with transparent policies and procedures that hosts approved papers in a freely accessible public location would be a better option.

The Open Access movement is good, but not enough IMO, because it's not digging down in to the entrenched communities working at some of these publications.