It examines China’s “space power” strategy and its anti-satellite capabilities.
Beginning with the 2007 satellite destruction test, the article discusses how China may have opened the era of space warfare and how the planned 35-satellite BeiDou network would give China a global surveillance capability.

February 1, 2019.
Under their “space power” strategy, China has decided to launch 35 satellites of its GPS system BeiDou by the end of 2020, which will give China “eyes of surveillance” across the entire world.
The following continues from the previous chapter.
Destroying a weather satellite with a missile.
Russia has already launched cyber warfare against humanity at least twice, defeating forces that opposed Russia and seizing territory.
China, which has already reached toward the Moon, should be expected to take essentially the same actions on an even larger scale than Russia.
Bonji Obara, a specialist in diplomacy and security and an expert on China, also stated on Genron TV that “China opened the curtain on space warfare,” and pointed out that its beginning dates back twelve years.
In the same year as the lunar orbit of Chang’e-1 in 2007, China destroyed one of its own weather satellites at an altitude of 850 kilometers using a ground-launched missile.
The world was truly shocked at that moment.
“That shock was not because China had acquired the capability to destroy satellites.
It was because people realized that China would actually do such a thing.”
So said Mr. Obara.
After the Cold War, the United States and Russia had reached a tacit understanding that they would not destroy each other’s satellites.
Destroying satellites means blinding and deafening the opponent.
They cannot see the opponent’s situation and cannot communicate.
Even if reconnaissance is conducted, no information comes back.
Naturally suspicion and fear grow.
What happens if an attack is launched after satellites are destroyed.
Without satellites, precise pinpoint strikes become impossible, and proper retaliation cannot be carried out.
At that moment one may fall into the devil’s whisper of destroying a wide area at once with weapons of mass destruction.
Thus the incentive to use nuclear weapons increases and humanity is pushed toward tragedy.
Because such scenarios are entirely conceivable, a tacit agreement not to destroy satellites emerged, Mr. Obara explains.
“It was China in 2007 that broke this tacit understanding.
The international community was shocked and wondered whether China truly intended to wage war.
Furthermore, it is said that by 2013 China had established the capability to destroy geostationary satellites at altitudes of thirty to forty thousand kilometers, the highest orbit currently in use.
They are believed to have acquired the capability to destroy almost all satellites orbiting the Earth, including geostationary satellites.”
In the December 2010 issue of the Chinese Communist Party’s political theory journal Qiushi, the following was written.
“Attacking satellites is the most effective means of attacking the United States.
Efforts to develop space weapons should be accelerated.
When missiles can ultimately be launched from satellites, the United States will know that there is nowhere to hide.”
The intention to target and subdue the United States is obvious.
Such intentions have been published under the Central Military Commission, the command center of China’s military strategy.
Under their “space power” plan, China has decided to launch 35 satellites of its BeiDou GPS system by the end of 2020, giving China “eyes of surveillance” across the entire world.
To be continued.