- China has spent more than a decade exploring technology for interfering with foreign satellites. This pursuit of ASAT capabilities clearly indicates a desire to threaten U.S. space infrastructure, which the Chinese military may consider useful during the initial moments of a conventional conflict with the United States in what Beijing considers its region of influence.
- But while China’s ASAT capabilities threaten U.S. assets in space, it’s still unclear how they fit into Chinese military doctrine, and how or in what instances they would be deployed. The U.S. also lacks a clear path for reining in the proliferation of these capabilities because of its own reliance on ballistic missile defense systems that are viewed similarly as potential ASAT weapons.
China is aggressively pursuing capabilities such as anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons that could diminish the U.S. military’s reconnaissance, navigation and communications in case of war in the South China Sea or on the Korean Peninsula.
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