While China pollutes the U.S. political system, blinds U.S. satellites with laser, stalks the U.S. fleet and uses the tools of unrestricted warfare (front companies, economic attack, etc.) they have also been busy building a cover "Space Force". No doubt this is driven by the PLA who's open policy is to attack the U.S.
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AIRFORCE TIMES
China’s direct-ascent anti-satellite missile is the latest test to prove counter-space capabilities. Last year, senior U.S. officials said China had attempted to use lasers to blind American satellites.
“We have three books and several dozen articles from China that go back 10 years, all of which advocate all types of anti-satellite weapons and they have a consistent theme — they have to be deployed covertly so that in a crisis with America, China can shoot down some satellites as a deterrent message,” Pillsbury said.
“These documents advocate multiple approaches to preemptive strikes on satellites from plasma clouds, pellets, directed-energy weapons, orbiting spacecraft and attacking ground stations with special forces,” he said.
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