A Different View of China's ASAT Test

Gregory Kulacki and Jeffrey Lewis argued in a joint presentation that the common arguments about China's anti-satellite test—that the test was a shot across the bow of American space superiority or an attempt to force the U.S. into negotiations to restrict the development of space weaponry—are based on limited information and unreliable sources. Further, such explanations view China as a unified, rational decision maker, rather than a complicated bureaucracy in which conflicting interests compete for attention and resources, and mistakes can be made. Commentators and officials should be cautious in assessing Chinese intentions with limited information, Kulacki and Lewis advised at the Carnegie Endowment on November 13, 2007.

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News & Politics

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• China
• Anti-Satellite
• Satellite
• Test
• Space
• Race
• Weaponry
• Assessment

[yottky]

"...such explanations view China as a unified, rational decision maker, rather than a complicated bureaucracy ..". All i can say is this is yet another typical example of AMERICAN HYPOCRISY. What kind of rational decision was made by the US gov to decide there was WMD in Iraq or its link to terrorism?

[xiongmu]

Wow, 24:30, Kulacki explains how he was helping a Chinese student develop a model on an attack against a U.S. reconnaissance satellite! Anybody still wanna claim that the PRC doesn't have hostile intentions against the U.S.?

[PrometheanRunGood]

Why all the hate for these guys I thought they did a great job and was very subjective

[satelliteDNScastip]

awesome mis cabs !! jaja

[hardsofty123]

saddam's policy w/ wmds convinced all world intelligence services that he had weapons. he had programs, he had the capability to make bio chem wmds, he just didnt have stockpiles. his nuke prog. was suspended, but proliferation was still a real risk. in respect to 1% doctrine. but listen, the usa went to iraq to increase its oil production to avoid the oil shocks of the past, and to remove saddam, since he was a destabilizer of the region, also to promote democracy.