Space War Is Real and China Wants to Lead

A Long March-2F carrier rocket, carrying the Shenzhou-12 spacecraft and a crew of three astronauts, lifts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi desert, in northwest China on June 17, 2021. This is the first crewed mission to China's new space station. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images

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Beijing has officially opposed the weaponization of space, but according to a Pentagon report, China has constructed ground-based missiles that can hit a satellite in orbit.