There's a monopoly angle here too [1].

I remember doing a face-palm when I watched "Gravity." The whole conflict centers around a cascade of space-junk caused by Russia shooting it's own spy satellite. In the movie, the Chinese space station saves the day. In reality, China actually shot down it's own satellite, rendering it's orbit and adjacent orbits unusable for the foreseeable future. [3]

I'm all for international cooperation, but we have to engage with reality.

[1] https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/its-time-to-break-up-disn...

[2] https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/how-bill-clinton-and-amer...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Chinese_anti-satellite_mi...