Maybe China will volunteer some remote quarter of their vast stretches of land as a crash landing pad. It might be worth completely sacrificing the environmental quality of a few dozen square miles of land (there's already tons of land that's naturally uninhabitable) to gain the resources available from space.

I think you're missing the point.

Wrap the goods in a capsule. Attach a parachute.

Now you can land it anywhere you want, lawyers permitting.

(snicker)