Pentagon: China Honing Anti-Satellite Capability

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The Chinese military, known as the People’s Liberation Army, is acquiring technologies to improve its ability to operate in space and is “developing the ability to attack an adversary’s space assets,” the report said. “PLA writings emphasize the necessity of ‘destroying, damaging, and interfering with the enemy’s reconnaissance/observation and communications satellites,’ suggesting that such systems, as well as navigation and early warning satellites, could be among initial targets of attack to ‘blind and deafen the enemy,” the report said.

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