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A new study by RAND finds that China’s military over the past decade has become more willing to use risky, provocative behavior in space to forward its political objectives, and less willing to communicate with the US Defense Department and the Space Force even during a crisis.

The report, “China’s Growing Risk Tolerance in Space: People’s Liberation Army Perspectives and Escalation Dynamics” published June 24, is based on a review of recent “authoritative” open-source literature from “across the Chinese defense enterprise,” explain authors Howard Wang, Gregory Graff, and Alexis Dale-Huang.

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