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Defense intelligence report: China in steady pursuit of space capabilities to outmatch U.S.
An unclassified report released Jan. 15 [PDF] by the Defense Intelligence Agency does not reveal anything new about China's advances in space technologies and capabilities. But it does highlight one major concern for the Pentagon: China's military is becoming increasingly adept at militarizing commercial space technologies.
The People's Republic of China is conducting "sophisticated satellite operations and probably is testing on-orbit dual-use technologies that could be applied to counterspace missions," said the DIA in its first unclassified report made public on China's military power.
China's space advances in support of civil, economic and political goals could provide the nation a significant edge in military operations, the DIA said. Chinese military strategists regard the ability to use space-based systems and deny them to adversaries as central to enabling modern warfare. "As a result, the People's Republic of China continues to strengthen its military space capabilities despite its public stance against the militarization of space," said the report.
The PDF is 140 pages long.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday January 26 2019, @09:48PM (3 children)
"Competing imperial powers." Let's face it, the US is not the good guys. China just happens to be even worse. There are no good guys in empire.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1) by anubi on Saturday January 26 2019, @10:18PM (1 child)
I still wonder why America leaves so much of its technical talent unused.
And values even more the organizational and leadership skills that tell lower level engineers, machinists, assemblers, etc., that they no longer have a job... As outsourcing our technology is cheaper.
Then they seem to delight in security theater over copying a song. By deliberately inserting covert backdoors and remote system functions.
Didn't anyone get what +Fravia was trying to warn us about?
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 27 2019, @09:18AM
because they are flaming idiots
and so are we
outsourcing making bullets because it is cheaper? what utter rot
never outsource industries you can't afford to lose
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 27 2019, @12:57PM
Not that long ago a teacher in China was giving lesson on language. Students reported her for being a traitor because some of the single symbols being taught in a lesson, if rearranged, could be interpreted as being against the party. She was imprisoned, tortured, and in the end thrown into a cell full of males with her arms bound behind her back.
You think China is civilised? Look where they came from. Look what they are doing now. Draining people's bank accounts. Kidnapping people, disappearing them. Nothing has changed.