{"id":257530,"date":"2025-09-27T01:44:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T01:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/257530\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T01:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T01:44:11","slug":"china-remains-no-1-threat-in-space-space-force-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/257530\/","title":{"rendered":"China remains No. 1 threat in space: Space Force general"},"content":{"rendered":"

China remains America\u2019s top threat in space and is catching up to the United States military\u2019s space capabilities at an \u201cincredible pace,\u201d according to a top Space Force general.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are bringing on capability, I won\u2019t say daily, but at least monthly, that puts our assets at risk,\u201d Lt. Gen. Douglas Schiess, the commander of U.S. Space Forces-Space, told reporters at the annual Air & Space Forces Association conference in National Harbor, Maryland, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cChina is definitely our biggest threat,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

According to Schiess, the Chinese are building a \u201ckill chain,\u201d or attack process, for targeting U.S. maritime, land and air forces \u201cat greater distances than we\u2019ve ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re using space to be able to make those distances even greater,\u201d Schiess explained. \u201cOn top of that, they are adding counter-space capabilities that then put our assets at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n

Space Force intelligence suggests the Chinese military likely views counter-space operations<\/a> as a way to deter and counter U.S. military intervention in a regional conflict.<\/p>\n

Bradley Bowman, senior director of the Center on Military and Political Power at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said China\u2019s operations in space are among its \u201cmost concerning\u201d military activities.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the ultimate high ground. Space strengthens our intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance [ISR] and targeting capabilities. In other words, it\u2019s our best eyes and ears. And if our adversaries can have better ISR and can have better space-based ISR and targeting capabilities than we do, and deprive us of that high ground, then that is very, very dangerous,\u201d he told Military Times on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Should the Chinese military be able to destroy or outperform U.S. space-based capabilities, Bowman said that would lead to fewer early warnings about threats and more difficult combat engagements.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd when you aggregate that, that can result in a lost battle or war,\u201d Bowman said.<\/p>\n

Schiess said the U.S. military must continue to put up more satellites, including ISR satellites, to protect its forces. <\/p>\n

According to the most recent space threat fact sheet published by Space Force intelligence, China had more than 1,189 satellites in orbit as of July 2025, representing an on-orbit increase of about 927% since the end of 2015. <\/p>\n

More than 500 of those are ISR-capable satellites with optical, multispectral, radar, and radio frequency sensors, which the Space Force says increases China\u2019s ability to detect U.S. aircraft carriers, expeditionary forces and air wings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China remains America\u2019s top threat in space and is catching up to the United States military\u2019s space capabilities…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":257531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[135469,135470,19118,19101,19100,19119,19102,135471,159,783,131525,63635,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-257530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-afa-2025","9":"tag-air-space-forces-association","10":"tag-circulated-air-force-times","11":"tag-circulated-c4isrnet","12":"tag-circulated-defense-news","13":"tag-circulated-military-times","14":"tag-defense-news","15":"tag-douglas-schiess","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-space","18":"tag-space-force-news","19":"tag-u-s-space-force","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115273732184252379","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}