Remember when the Bush administration announced that “space supremacy” was the official goal of the United States military? The Obama administration came into office promising to cool the rhetoric and work through multilateral institutions to oppose various agreements that would prevent the militarization of space — space supremacy was out, space partnerships are in. Except the ChiComs are actually serious about global hegemony, and they aim to dominate and militarize space regardless of any “strategic reassurance” (aka appeasement) pursued by this administration:
The man is right, but no one believes that the Chinese are accruing this power for the sake of peace. The question is, what will the Obama administration do to make sure that it is we, and not the Red Chinese, who win the race to dominate space?
