China’s military is building up space warfare forces with missiles,
military satellites, and electronic systems designed to attack U.S.
satellites and space-transiting precision strike vehicles, according to a
congressional report.
“The [People’s Liberation Army] PLA is rapidly improving its space and counterspace capabilities in order to advance [Chinese Communist Party] interests and defend against perceived challenges to sovereignty and territorial integrity,” the report by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission states. The little-noticed report was made public April 26.
Former Air Force officer Mark Stokes, a specialist on China’s strategic forces with the private Project 2049 Institute, wrote the 85-page study, “China’s Evolving Space Capabilities.” Heritage Foundation China affairs specialist Dean Cheng contributed to the report.
Much of the report is focused on how high-technology space systems allow the Chinese military to better conduct war fighting, through such means as improved targeting over long distances and gathering intelligence.
“Greater Chinese competence in leveraging space technologies for military use may complicate U.S. freedom of action in the Asia-Pacific region,” the report said. “Over the next 10-15 years, more advanced precision strike assets, integrated with persistent space-based surveillance, a single integrated air and space picture, and survivable communications architecture, could enable greater confidence in contesting a broader range of sovereignty and territorial claims around China’s periphery.”
One specific goal of space capabilities is to field weapons against “U.S. long-range precision strike capabilities expected to be in place over the next 10-15 years.”
Those U.S. systems include new space planes and high-speed delivery systems for missiles and other weaponry.
Read more: http://freebeacon.com/red-shift/
“The [People’s Liberation Army] PLA is rapidly improving its space and counterspace capabilities in order to advance [Chinese Communist Party] interests and defend against perceived challenges to sovereignty and territorial integrity,” the report by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission states. The little-noticed report was made public April 26.
Former Air Force officer Mark Stokes, a specialist on China’s strategic forces with the private Project 2049 Institute, wrote the 85-page study, “China’s Evolving Space Capabilities.” Heritage Foundation China affairs specialist Dean Cheng contributed to the report.
Much of the report is focused on how high-technology space systems allow the Chinese military to better conduct war fighting, through such means as improved targeting over long distances and gathering intelligence.
“Greater Chinese competence in leveraging space technologies for military use may complicate U.S. freedom of action in the Asia-Pacific region,” the report said. “Over the next 10-15 years, more advanced precision strike assets, integrated with persistent space-based surveillance, a single integrated air and space picture, and survivable communications architecture, could enable greater confidence in contesting a broader range of sovereignty and territorial claims around China’s periphery.”
One specific goal of space capabilities is to field weapons against “U.S. long-range precision strike capabilities expected to be in place over the next 10-15 years.”
Those U.S. systems include new space planes and high-speed delivery systems for missiles and other weaponry.
Read more: http://freebeacon.com/red-shift/
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