A Space Force general warned that China’s communist regime might become the most dominant force in space if the United States doesn’t accelerate its pace to field critical new technologies in the warfighting domain. Vice chief of Space Operations Gen. David Thompson told the Washington Times this week that China has already developed a “tremendous and exquisite capability to look from space to see, hear, track and defend.” Most important, Beijing is approaching the ability to field new space systems in about half the time it takes the United States to do the same, Thompson suggested. “Not only do they have the ability to adopt new technology and updated capabilities much more quickly, if they’re almost as good as we are today—and they are almost as good as we are—they can cycle these things in very quickly [and] they become better than we are,” Thompson said. Last week, China successfully sent …