China is building a huge network of satellites that could be used against US troops: intel chief

Fri, 05/03/2024 - 08:56

A worker walks past buildings behind propaganda flags at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi desert in northwest China, a day before the launch of the Shenzhou-18 spacecraft to China's Tiangong — The Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi desert in northwest China.
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China has developed a large network of military satellites.
A Pentagon official warned they could be used to target US troops.
China is expanding its military presence in space.

China has developed a network of hundreds of military satellites that could be used to target US troops, a Pentagon official warned.

Maj. Gen. Greg Gagnon, deputy chief of space operations for intelligence, told a conference on Thursday that China had developed a sophisticated military satellite program.