I make no claim about what we should do in other contexts, only that mutual destruction of access to orbit is so easy to achieve we're currently careening towards it full speed without what politicians perceive as 'open hostilities'. This particular domain requires an approach more like OPEC than like the Cold War, and the consequence of failure to collaborate is you never get to play around in orbit again.

You think the Chinese capitalists aren't also trying to become dominant?

They are, but China regularly dispossesses them and sometimes executes them, so the communist party, with huge popular membership, is in control.

I'm talking about the CCP itself, not the various business people running other companies there. The CCP are capitalists, in case you haven't noticed. (I know, Americans can't really wrap their heads around that one.)