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The John Batchelor Show

PRC: ANTI-ISAT. RICK FISHER, @GORDONGCHANG, GATESTONE, NEWSWEEK, THE HILL

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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PRC: ANTI-ISAT. RICK FISHER, @GORDONGCHANG, GATESTONE, NEWSWEEK, THE HILL
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0:00.0

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0:59.7

This is CBS. I'm the World. I'm John Batchel. I welcome my colleague and friend Gordon Chang at Gordon G. Chang as our co-host for a conversation with Rick Fisher of the International Assessment and Strategy Center

1:11.9

about a headline running recently in defense news.

1:16.0

China demonstrated, quote, satellite dogfighting, end quote, according to a space force general.

1:23.1

Rick, a very good evening to you.

1:25.2

As of now in middle of March, the Space Force is saying that China is practicing anti-satellite behavior. Satellite dogfighting is a romantic version of that same statement. My memory is that China has been practicing anti-satellite conduct for many years. Do I remember correctly? It was 2007.

1:46.1

What happened, Rick? Help us remember. Good evening, too. Good evening, John. Good evening, Gordon.

1:51.9

Yes. On January 11, 2007, the high-ranking leaders of the Chinese Communist Party and the People's Liberation Army Air Force gathered at Chechang Satellite Launch Center in mid-China to witness the fifth launch of a missile, a missile based on their Dong Feng 21 medium range ballistic missile, but

2:20.2

modified with liquid fuel stages, to launch the first successful Chinese interception

2:29.1

of a satellite in low Earth orbit, A defunct Chinese weather

2:34.2

satellite that produced a very

2:36.3

large debris cloud

2:37.8

that still threatens

2:39.5

unmanned

2:42.2

and manned space

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