When Chinese space officials unveiled the design for the country’s first super heavy lift rocket nearly a decade ago, it looked like a fairly conventional booster. The rocket was fully expendable, with three stages and solid motors strapped onto its sides.
Now, based on information released at a major airshow in Zhuhai, China, the design has morphed again. And this time, the plan for the Long March 9 rocket looks almost exactly like a clone of SpaceX’s Starship rocket.
Good ol corporate espionage. I though they where trying to move away from the made in china memes
Personaly , I think Elon may have given them the info in exchange for continuing sales of tesla in China, and that may be why he’s backing Trump so hard, just a personal theory though. Same thing with his relationship with putin and the starlink availability in Russia and “mysterious” terminals being found in Russian bunkers around Ukraine.