{"id":396974,"date":"2026-03-21T18:07:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T18:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/396974\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T18:07:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T18:07:17","slug":"china-satellite-investment-soars-as-spacex-sparks-race-for-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/396974\/","title":{"rendered":"China satellite investment soars as SpaceX sparks race for sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/caixin\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caixin<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Beijing is pouring capital and policy support into the commercial space sector<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/6\/6.jpeg\" alt=\"20260318 Caixin main\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">A Long March-8 rocket\u00a0blasts off at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan province, China, in March 2024. (China Daily via Reuters)<\/p>\n<p>GU ZHAOWEI, QU YUNXU and HAN WEI, Caixin<\/p>\n<p id=\"main0-p-1\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">Space is emerging as a strategic domain, defined by scarce resources and rapid technological change,\u00a0a new arena for competition among major powers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caixin Beijing is pouring capital and policy support into the commercial space sector A Long March-8 rocket\u00a0blasts off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[270],"tags":[381,18,19,2003,17,4079,3021,133,4657,41031,451,2731,68075],"class_list":["post-396974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-china","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-investment","tag-ireland","tag-race","tag-satellite","tag-science","tag-sky","tag-soars","tag-space","tag-spacex","tag-sparks"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116268501717915445","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}