US-China Tech Race: Shock and Awe
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Can China Really Use Space to Be a Superpower?
Tod harrison is the director of the aero space security project at the centre for strategic and international studies in the us. He says china has been watching the united states, and what they've realized is there's two paths they could pursue. One is to create similar space systems for china, to give the chinese the same kind of advantages. Number two is they could pursue counter space weapons to deny the united states its ability to use space. Tod says, the chinese have pursued both strategies. They've built their own networks of satellites like the us but they've also developed technology to stop us. Satellites in their tracks from missiles that can shoot down satellites
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