It's a big deal, he explained at the Gatestone Institute, becausen the "next 9/11 will almost certainly occur in space."
President Trump has created the Space Force, but Chang, author of "The Coming Collapse of China" and a senior fellow at Gatestone, noted China will be launching satellites almost every other week starting next March.
"In one instance the gap in next year's frenetic schedule of launches will be only five days," he wrote. "This year, through the end of September, China launched 29 satellites, more than any other nation. The U.S. was a close second with 27."
And, he said, the communist regime wants to "widen its lead."
"President Obama's view sounds smart but was deeply mistaken because, among other things, it failed to take into account the fact that Beijing was already weaponizing the high ground. 'China has been working hard to militarize space since the issuance of its '863 Program' of 1986,' Rick Fisher of the Virginia-based International Assessment and Strategy Center told Gatestone. The 863 Program was followed by 1992's 'Project 921,' run by the General Armaments Department of the Central Military Commission. After the sweeping 2015 reorganization of the Chinese military, control of space ended up in the Commission's Armaments Development Department."
Space isn't a weapons-free zone.
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