Image: China Space Agency
What’s new: An American Security Project paper on how China uses space, including BeiDou, for influence/soft power.
Why it’s important:
- As the U.S. greatly decreases it’s diplomatic/ soft power efforts around the world, it leaves a vacuum the Chinese can easily fill.
- For space-based PNT this process has been going on since 2004 when America backed away from maintaining GPS as “the Gold Standard” for GNSS.
What else to know: This is the second paper on this topic we have highlighted on this blog. The first, and a longer work was from Harvard’s Belfer Center in 2023.
