News Analysis
In the ever-expanding arms race between communist China and the United States, few domains of competition are as high stakes as that of space.
Satellite architecture is required for everything from GPS to bank transactions to missile defense systems. As such, it is no surprise that both nations are investing heavily in their militaries’ space and counterspace capabilities.
What is often overlooked in this race, however, is just how each nation intends to win.
Indeed, over the past decade, China and the United States’ visions for the future of space have increasingly veered apart, and the means through which each nation seeks to leverage its native space industry has evolved with those visions….