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China's ASAT Capabilities: As a Potential Response to US Missile Defense and 'Space Control' Plans

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"China is concerned about U.S. missile defense and "space control"plans, which would lead to weaponization of outer space and stimulate a costly and destabilizing arms race. China is further concerned that the US missile defense program, as currently advertised, would neutralize China's strategic nuclear deterrent...."

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Zhang, Hui. “China's ASAT Capabilities: As a Potential Response to US Missile Defense and 'Space Control' Plans.” Ensuring America's Space Security: Report of the FAS Panel on Weapons in Space, October 2004

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