MUNICH: Space has 'fundamentally changed' in a just a few years due to a growing arms race, a US general said, singling out China as the 'most challenging threat', followed by Russia. 'We are seeing a whole mix of weapons being produced by our strategic competitors,' General Bradley Chance Saltzman, t
MUNICH: Space has"fundamentally changed" in a just a few years due to a growing arms race, a US general said, singling out China as the"most challenging threat", followed by Russia.
"The most challenging threat is China but also Russia," he said, speaking late on Saturday on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, listing technologies including anti-satellite missiles, ground-based directed energy and orbit interception capacities. His words carry even more weight given surging US-China tensions - highlighted by tense exchanges in Munich on Saturday between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Beijing's top diplomat Wang Yi over a suspected Chinese spy balloon.
Since then, the United States's rivals have been seeking to show they can compete - China did the same in 2007, and India in 2019.
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