China Accuses U.S. Of Turning Outer Space Into 'a Weapon and a Battlefield'

https://www.msn.com newsweek ^ | 7/20/2022 | Ed Browne

[RomanSoldier19]

hina's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian has accused the U.S. of being "the main driver in turning outer space into a weapon and a battlefield."

His comments came during one of the ministry's regular press conferences which often include barbed responses to accusations against China or other developments.

In Tuesday's session, Zhao was asked by Chinese state-run news agency China News Service about last month's opening of the U.S. National Space Intelligence Center (NSIC) and whether it posed a risk to "humanity's overall stability".

Zhao replied: "The U.S. is the main driver in turning outer space into a weapon and a battlefield. It has long pursued a strategy for dominance in space and openly defined outer space as a war-fighting domain.

"To achieve its strategy, the U.S. has been aggressively developing and deploying a variety of offensive outer space weapons such as directed energy and Counter Communications System, frequently holding military drills and advancing all-round military buildup and preparedness in outer space."

The National Space Intelligence Center (NSIC) was established last month at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. It will be operated by a unit known as Space Delta 18, which is responsible for "delivering critical intelligence on threat systems, foreign intentions, and activities in the space domain."

[RomanSoldier19]

[SoConPubbie]

This is China schooling the Democratic Administration on the use of Projection!

[glaseatr]

Damn Chinese are sounding like their offspring, the Democrats.

Accuse other of what you yourself are doing.

[Seruzawa]

Commies always tell you what they are doing. Just listen to their accusations.

Commies always lie about everything. That’s their nature. Just like a scorpion.

[Dan Cooper]

I seem to remember the Chinese testing an anti-satellite weapon that littered low earth orbit with debris not too many years ago.

[FLT-bird]

I sure as hell hope we are and that we are doing so just as much as possible.

I have no doubt China is as much as it can.

[butlerweave]

While China blows up satellites and makes massive amounts of space junk

[madison10]

Says the country that released a bio weapon on the planet in 2020. Stuff it China.

[CivilWarBrewing]

Space Stations FACT:

The ISS (INTERNATIONAL Space Station), mostly built by the United States is shared by almost ALL countries, EXCEPT China.

CHINA'S SPACE STATION (the TIANGONG), is ONLY USED BY CHINA. NOT for International use.

So, the U.S. has to SHARE it's space station, and CHINA GETS THEIR OWN. Sound FAIR? Hell no!

[Alas Babylon!]

Whatever the ChiComs accuse another country of; they’re doing it themselves.

[butlerweave]

Ya what’s in their station ?

[Williams]

Good.

[jimmygrace]

Space, the final frontier. Where communist dictatorships try to keep up only to die.

[NWFree]

China turned outer apace into a junkyard and need to clean it all up 🤪

[oldasrocks]

Same with the dems as others have said in here.

[Joe Brower]

Riiiight. So that's why the Chinese blew up a satellite with a ground-launched missile way back in 2007.

[glorgau]

Projection of what they are doing...

[dennisw]

“While China blows up satellites and makes massive amounts of space junk”

How much are these Chinese idiots leaving in orbit? The James Webb telescope got damaged the other day by a micro - meteorite. Not that it was made in China but....