China’s anti-satellite weaponry ‘disturbing’ threat: US official

October 28, 2019

Nikkei Asian Review:

TOKYO — China’s development of weapons designed to shoot down satellites presents a “disturbing” national security threat, a senior U.S. defense official told Nikkei.

“That’s a very disturbing threat to see someone develop that kind of a capability,” John Hill, principal director for space policy at the U.S. Department of Defense, said Saturday.

Hill was in Japan to take part in Sunday’s Mt. Fuji Dialogue, a policy roundtable hosted by the Japan Institute of International Affairs and the Japan Center for Economic Research.

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