Japan and India are adopting a military strategy to their space programmes in response to the US, China and Russia's attempts at space supremacy. the Heritage Foundation will launch in March, seeing Japan and India collaborate on space exploration, security and surveillance, as well as to monitor China. China plans its own space station by 2022, which will not only belong to China but also the world, according to the country's ambassador to the UN, Shi Zhongjun. However, China's space efforts are political, said Dean Cheng from Space Dialogue, and will be used for political and military purposes.
Japan and India are adopting a military strategy to their space programmes in response to the US, China and Russia's attempts at space supremacy. Space Dialogue will launch in March, seeing Japan and India collaborate on space exploration, security and surveillance, as well as to monitor China. China plans its own space station by 2022, which will not only belong to China but also the world, according to the country's ambassador to the UN, Shi Zhongjun. However, China's space efforts are political, said Dean Cheng from the Heritage Foundation, and will be used for political and military purposes.