From AP, via Houston Chronicle:
China has no plans to carry out another test of an anti-satellite weapon, Japan’s former defense chief said Monday, citing a conversation with the Chinese defense minister.
Chinese Defense Minister Cao Gangchuan‘s reported remarks are the latest attempt by Beijing to tamp down criticism over last month’s test, in which a missile shattered a defunct Chinese weather satellite…
China insists it is committed to the peaceful use of space, and along with Russia presented a draft outline for a treaty to prevent the deployment of weapons in space to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva in 2002.
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