China is minting still healthy millionaires faster than anyone on the planet; just the type of folks who could be attracted to paying for flying. And I also don’t understand their not being able to rent a Bigelow module (Bigelow’s stations are for rent, not purchase). Again, in each case, we’re almost forcing the Chinese, instead of buying American, to develop their own – competing – capability.

There needs to be a clear, specific, and compelling rationale for that type of restriction that more than offsets the (millions?) of dollars in trade and resultant high-tech jobs that are going to be lost if China continues to be excluded.. Does anyone know what that is? (Seriously, I”m asking).

So, China can hold billions of our debt, not to mention hack into many sensitive computer systems, but can not ride on our commercial spaceships? Yeah. Okay. We showed them.