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Japan, Australia Ask China to Explain Space Missile - Paul Tighe and Takashi Hirokawa
| China Digital Times
From Bloomberg: Japan and Australia asked China to explain the test firing of a missile into space that destroyed an obsolete Chinese weather satellite orbiting the Earth. The satellite was hit by the missile on Jan. 11, Gordon Johndroe, a...
China says space programme is no threat (AFP)
Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:14:53 GMT | Yahoo! News
AFP - China has said that other nations had no reason to feel threatened by its space programme amid reports that it had shot down a satellite for the first time.
No response from China on US space complaints: White House (AFP)
Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:26:10 GMT | Yahoo! News
AFP - China has yet to respond to US concerns about its space program, the White House said, adding that Washington hopes for "cooperation on a civil space strategy" with Beijing.
?Modern life? Threatened by China Space Weapon Test
Sat, 20 Jan 2007 05:53:08 +0000 | China View
National Post, Canada, Friday, January 19, 2007- WASHINGTON ( George Gedda, Associated Press - AP) ? Criticizing China?s test of an anti-satellite weapon, the U.S. State Department said Friday ?modern life as we know it? depends on the security of space-based technology. State Department deputy spokesman Tom Casey said the administration raised concerns about the test with [...]
Sen. Biden warns against space arms race (AP)
Sun, 21 Jan 2007 16:53:26 GMT | Yahoo! News
AP - The Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman warned on Sunday against fostering an arms race in space after China was reported to have conducted an anti-satellite weapons test.
US hawks bolstered by China's weapons test in space: newspaper (AFP)
Sat, 20 Jan 2007 03:10:21 GMT | Yahoo! News
AFP - China's reported shooting down of an orbiting satellite will bolster hawks in Washington concerned that Beijing poses a strategic threat to the United States, a newspaper has warned.
China experts see space blast as puzzle and warning (Reuters)
Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:38:40 GMT | Yahoo! News
Reuters - Blasting a satellite out of the heavens may have been China's blunt way of demanding a bigger say in space security, Chinese experts said on Monday, while voicing puzzlement about the apparent test and Beijing's long silence.
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