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25. Chinese Concepts of Space Security

Author : Dean Cheng

Published in: Handbook of Space Security

Publisher: Springer New York

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Abstract

China views space as enhancing many aspects of comprehensive national power, including not only its military capabilities but its economic development and diplomatic outreach. In the military dimension, its space capabilities have strategic, operational, and tactical impact.

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Footnotes
1
For further discussion of the creation of Plan 863, see Feigenbaum (2003), esp. pp. 141–143.
 
2
Figures compiled from various articles drawn from China Aerospace and CASC and CASIC websites
 
3
See, for example, Fengyun Satellite Data Center (2012)
 
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Metadata
Title
Chinese Concepts of Space Security
Author
Dean Cheng
Copyright Year
2015
Publisher
Springer New York
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-2029-3_42

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