China accuses US of ‘turning space into a warzone’ with Trump’s Golden Dome missile defense project

The U.S. withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 2019 and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in 2002, citing Russian violations which Moscow denied. “Now that the legal framework in this area has been destroyed, and the validity period has expired, or deliberately, let’s say, a number of documents have ceased to be valid, this base must be recreated both in the interests of our two countries and in the interests of security throughout the planet,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.China’s space-based targeting capabilities have “grown most impressively” in recent years, according to Space Force Vice Chief Gen. B. Chance Saltzman, with hundreds of satellites now dedicated to tracking U.S. assets in orbit. He called China’s rapid advances “mind-boggling” during a hearing on Capitol Hill last month and said the U.S. was at risk of losing its dominance in orbit.A concept image for space lasers to be incorporated into the Golden Dome missile defense projectGolden Dome will need space-based radar capabilities, like the digitized version pictured above. (Lockheed Martin )Weeks before that, Space Force Vice Chief of Operations Gen. Michael Guetlein revealed that China has been practicing satellite “dogfighting,” a sign of its growing ability to conduct complex operations in orbit.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPSpace Force has observed “five different objects in space maneuvering in and out and around each other in synchronicity and in control,” he said.”That’s what we call dogfighting in space,” Guetlein said. “They are practicing tactics, techniques and procedures to conduct on-orbit operations from one satellite to another.”