China is rapidly expanding space and counter-space capabilities that could target US military forces in the Indo-Pacific region and incapacitate America’s space-based assets, the US-China Economic and Review Commission said in its annual report to Congress.
Beijing has heavily invested in counter-space technologies— including direct-ascent, anti-satellite weapons, and co-orbital interference platforms—as part of a strategy of blinding and disorienting US forces in the opening phase of a conflict, the commission concluded.
China has launched more than 1,000 satellites in the last decade, dramatically increasing its capacity for persistent surveillance, communications, and precision targeting, according to the report provided to Bloomberg ...