China’s Advancing Space Program Leaves US Vulnerable in Event of Space War, Expert Warns

The manned Shenzhou-12 spacecraft from China's Manned Space Agency onboard the Long March-2F rocket launches with three Chinese astronauts onboard at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China's Gansu Province, on June 17, 2021. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

U.S. policymakers need to come up with a better space strategy, a space and security expert warned after China sent a three-member crew to its unfinished space station.

“To fight and win a space war against the Americans, the first thing that [the Chinese regime] will do is to knock out or blind our satellites in a space Pearl Harbor-type event,” Brandon Weichert, author of “Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower,” said in an interview with NTD on June 19.