Emerging victorious from the Cold War in part thanks to the expenditure of their Star Wars, the space defense program that had led the Soviet Union into an arms race beyond its economic capacities, the United States has long benefited in space. such a technological advance that it was difficult for them to imagine ever being caught up.
A few decades later, Washington saw this lead shrink with the rise of a new rival.
With financial and technical resources far superior to those of the defunct USSR, China has equipped itself with a powerful space industry which now directly threatens American hegemony.
In the past three years, China has launched more rockets into space than any other country, as well as missions to the Moon and to Mars.
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More worryingly, Beijing is not content to simply compete technologically with the Americans.
It develops space weapon systems capable of
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