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U.S. Seeing Progress To Starting Space Dialogue With China, State Official Says

Wednesday, July 10th, 2013

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U.S. Seeing Progress To Starting Space Dialogue With China, State Official Says

2nd Lt. Melissa Huffman, a collections analyst for 614th Air and Space Operations Center, reviews data received on the Delta II site at Vandenberg AFB, Calif. Photo: Air Force.

The United States is seeing an increasing willingness from China to discuss space security issues, a State Department official said. This is noteworthy because an expert on Chinese space issues said the United States has struggled to engage Beijing on space issues. Dean Cheng, a research fellow on Asian studies at the Heritage Foundation think tank, told Defense Daily yesterday the United States has tried to engage China on space issues for a number of years, only to be rebuffed…

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