China’s Advancing Space Program Leaves US Vulnerable in Event of Space War, Expert Warns
U.S. policymakers need to come up with a better space strategy, a space and security expert warned after China sent a three-member crew to its unfinished space station. “To fight and win a space war against the Americans, the first thing that [the Chinese regime] will do is to knock out or blind our satellites […]
U.S. policymakers need to come up with a better space strategy, a space and security expert warned after China sent a three-member crew to its unfinished space station. “To fight and win a space war against the Americans, the first thing that [the Chinese regime] will do is to knock out or blind our satellites in a space Pearl Harbor-type event,” Brandon Weichert, author of "Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower," said in an interview with NTD on June 19. “We are not yet prepared to defend ourselves, let alone retaliate, in the way that would deter China or Russia from trying this during a geopolitical crisis.” The agency in charge of China’s manned space program, the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO), isn't a civilian agency like NASA. CMSEO is subordinate to China’s Central Military Commission (CMC), an agency of the Chinese Communist Party that oversees the Chinese military. ...
