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Bill Gertz, a national security columnist for the Washington Times and Senior Editor of the Washington Free Beacon, in Washington on Sep. 23, 2019. (Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times)

US Unprepared for Potential Space Conflict with China, Says Bill Gertz
Irene Luo Jan Jekielek Senior Editor

“The Chinese could cripple the United States—not just the military, but the entire U.S. society” with a surprise attack on America’s satellites, according to Bill Gertz, a national security columnist for the Washington Times and Senior Editor of the Washington Free Beacon.

China has built anti-satellite missiles and other weapons that make it capable of “severely disrupting or destroying” U.S. satellites in low earth orbit by 2020, according to the Pentagon’s Joint Staff intelligence directorate. America heavily relies on satellites for communications, transportation, finance, and military data collection.

Space weaponry is just one aspect of the Chinese communist regime’s multifaceted doctrine of unrestricted warfare—using a series of unconventional tactics to defeat a more powerful foe, the United States, without engaging in troop-on-troop combat.

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Re: US Unprepared for Potential Space Conflict with China, Says Bill Gertz
« Reply #1 on: October 03, 2019, 10:42:29 pm »
And this is but one more reason why -- when China finally makes its move to take back Taiwan -- that we will not interfere militarily.