https://spacenews.com/op-ed-commercial-space-startups-should-be-wary-of-some-foreign-investment/

Chinese authorities have recently forced over a million Muslims into reeducation camps. Nothing need be said about Chinese tolerance for political diversity.

Who is eager to work in an environment in which you have to hide your political or social opinions, lest you end up in a reeducation camp?

Tangentially, the author makes some remarks on historical spaceflight development. In the 1920s, apparently Germany had quite a bit of investment in private rocket ventures, but the depression of the following decade dried up those funds, leaving Germany’s rocket community dependent upon the NAZI government and rocketry in general in the hands of world governments:

The resulting military control of rocketry impeded private investment in spaceflight for half a century.

This sounds much more appealing and is more ideal for getting to know Chinese culture. What I would think twice about is how restricted access to the internet is and living in a country where you can be sent to concentration camps.