The million dollar question: how private is "private" in China? Notice that unlike anywhere else (almost) everyone start with solid rocket motors these days, and in China it's not like you can go to a shop and buy them.https://twitter.com/AJ_FI/status/1121840523474624512 …
That's correct. Yet it's also true that very few recent satellite launch vehicle commercial start ups anywhere in the world - be it in the US, Europe or other Asian countries - went with solid rocket motor solutions. Except the Chinese. The system there must be different.