General: China Trying to Become the Most Dominant Force in Space

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

A Space Force general warned that China’s communist regime might become the most dominant force in space if the United States doesn’t accelerate its pace to field critical new technologies in the warfighting domain.

Vice chief of Space Operations Gen. David Thompson told the Washington Times this week that China has already developed a “tremendous and exquisite capability to look from space to see, hear, track and defend.”