US poses biggest threat to security in space – China’s top brass

Washington uses hyped-up foreign threats as a pretext for military expansion in space, Beijing’s defense spokesman has said…

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Fri, 01 Mar 2024

© Michael Stonecypher/US Air Force/Getty Images Technicians in protective suits conduct post-landing checks on the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California

Washington uses hyped-up foreign threats as a pretext for military expansion, Beijing’s defense spokesman has said…

The United States is leading a dangerous drive to militarize space, the Chinese military has said, arguing that the Pentagon represents the greatest threat to peace and security on the final frontier.

Asked to respond to recent warnings by US officials about Beijing’s growing arsenal of “anti-satellite weapons,” Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Zhang Xiaogang told reporters that it was Washington, not the People’s Republic, that was seeking to transform space into a future battlefield:

“The United States uses the so-called threats from other countries as an excuse to expand its military power, and China firmly opposes this. As we all know, the United States defines space as a ‘combat territory,’ develops and deploys offensive space weapons… and even maliciously tracks and dangerously approaches other countries’ spacecraft, creating the risk of collisions with space objects.

“This has become the biggest driver of militarization and battlefieldization of space, and the biggest threat to space security.”

Zhang was apparently responding to comments by US Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall, who has repeatedly stressed the alleged threat posed by Beijing as its military continues to develop and modernize.

Earlier this month, the official warned that Washington was “out of time” to keep pace with Chinese forces, deeming a future war all but inevitable.

“We can no longer regard conflict as a distant possibility or a future problem that we might have to confront. The risk of conflict is here now and that risk will increase with time.”

In a memo issued last September to the US Space Force – the Pentagon’s newest branch – Kendall also sounded the alarm about potential Chinese incursions into space, saying:

“Beijing is dramatically expanding its nuclear force and military space capabilities. We cannot sustain deterrence by standing still.”

In recent weeks US officials and lawmakers have helped to fuel media reports that Russia similarly intends to deploy military hardware into orbit. However, Moscow has dismissed the charge outright, with President Vladimir Putin calling the claim “unfounded” during a national address on Thursday. The Kremlin leader added that such allegations were merely a US attempt to drag Russia into arms control negotiations that would exclusively benefit Washington.

Martin comments: Pot calling the kettle black. China is a prime suspect in both the Hawaii fires (space-based lasers) and the Christchurch earthquakes of 2010-2011 (Ionospheric mod. triggering). Both China and Russia were never slow to brag about their “bigger than HAARP” ionospheric heating arrays and it wasn’t that long ago that China deliberately targeted and obliterated one of their own satellites both as a show of their capabilities and to cloud NORAD’s Space Fence system with millions of shards of orbital debris.
‌More recently, the CCP has made a lot of noise about Transmedium Vehicle technology, which led to the Elizondo/Corbell UFO psy-op.
‌They can point fingers all they like. The next war will employ a great deal of space-based technology from all major players. 

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