But after Musk makes some significant achievements, ... the not so smart givernment bureaucrats at the behest of the political vermin will move in, pile on regulations, and then take over the enterprise. US Givernment will then talk to the Chinese telling them they will give them the technology in the spirit of humanity, to show the US is really a good guy and means them no harm. Maybe fund research labs and launch pads inside China.
Musk said he will allow no earth govt to have any power over his independent Martian dictatorship