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#PRC: MOON IS THE HIGH GROUND: Rick Fisher, senior fellow of the International Assessment and Strategy Center, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill.

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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#PRC: MOON IS THE HIGH GROUND: Rick Fisher, senior fellow of the International Assessment and Strategy Center, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill.
https://www.businessinsider.com/china-could-attack-us-satellites-from-moon-warns-general-2024-3

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The ambition of the people's Gordon Chang, I had Gordon G Chang.

0:32.8

The ambition of the People's Republic of China

0:36.2

to land on the Moon, to build a manned base on the Moon,

0:41.2

is before us.

0:42.1

To what end, we welcome Rick Fisher. the space program because there is a remark by a U.S. Space Force general that China

0:58.1

aims to use the moon as a base to shoot at the Earth, especially the US and Allied satellites in some fashion.

1:09.4

In other words, the Moon becomes the high ground. It always meant to be in the first Cold War, but here we are in the second Cold War.

1:18.0

Rick, a very good evening to you. The Moon Base, my memory is the 2030s is the ambition of the PRC.

1:27.0

This idea, though, of using the Moon Base as an artillery range,

1:32.0

is that simultaneous with the building of a man base on the

1:35.6

South Pole. Good evening to you. Good evening John. China's ambition to militarize the moon is underway and took up, took a new step on March 19 when China launched its Kekow 2 communication relay satellite to the L2 Lagrangian point in order to be able to

2:10.3

communicate with the next chi moonlander that will be launched within a month to the far

2:18.8

side of the moon.

2:20.6

Now what China also included with the real life satellite were two experimental

2:26.7

satellites that will go into an orbit around the moon and these two satellites

2:32.3

are the beginning of China's

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