US Space Chief Warns Congress of China’s Space Capabilities in Potential Indo–Pacific War

China has ‘invested heavily in counter space threats’ over the past two decades, Gen. Chance Saltzman said.

U.S. Space Force Gen. B. Chance Saltzman, chief of Space Operations, testifies at a Senate hearing on Capitol Hill on March 14, 2023. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

China’s ambitions in space pose a “powerful destabilizing force” to the U.S. economy and national security, according to Gen. Chance Saltzman, chief of space operations for the U.S. Space Force.

“Space has become a warfighting domain,” Saltzman told the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, a bipartisan congressional panel, in a hearing on April 3.