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The Militarization of Space and U.S. Global Dominance: the China Connection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Tom Barry
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The October release of the Bush administration's new National Space Policy marked an important step forward in a long-fought campaign by right-wing hawks to extend their agenda toward the stars. The advance of the space hawks was also evident in the annual report of the U.S.-China Commission, which in its recently released annual report warned that measures were need to halt the alleged effort by the Chinese to challenge U.S. space supremacy.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 4 , Issue 12 , December 2006 , e5
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