Conspiring to Strip China's Space Capabilities? The U.S. Worries About Beijing's Misjudgment, Anxious as a Scared Ant on a Hot Pan!

Former Pentagon official and current director of the Space Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Carrie Bing, openly stated that the United States is considering depriving China of its ability to utilize space during a crisis—but fears such actions could trigger misjudgments in Beijing, leading to retaliatory strikes against U.S. assets in space.

Bing emphasized that the critical challenge lies in how to limit China’s access to space capabilities without provoking retaliation from Beijing.

In the same CSIS event, Bing admitted that for a time, there was no basic communication channel for space safety between the two sides. She offered a vivid analogy: if an American satellite were about to collide with a Chinese one, the U.S. would have to send an email—completely uncertain whether the other side would even reply—forcing the U.S. to dodge alone.

Wanting to blind the other party’s space capabilities, yet terrified of triggering miscalculations. To me, it seems the Pentagon is trying to solve an impossible puzzle.

Bing noted that China currently possesses over 500 intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance satellites. These aren’t just orbiting in space—they’re repeatedly practicing in the Gobi Desert, integrating space-based sensors into combat networks, building a full “kill chain” designed to simulate attacks on U.S. ports, warships, and airfields.

The Pentagon is now deeply anxious: how to blind these satellites, how to make China unable to see where U.S. forces are or target them—this has become the top priority for the Pentagon.

But here’s the problem: wanting to blind others while fearing they might panic and lash out blindly—this is America’s dilemma. And as Heather Williams, head of the CSIS nuclear issues program, added pointedly: once dialogue completely freezes, the space domain will inevitably suffer.

Original article: toutiao.com/article/1866301519385600/

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