This is a series of CBS I and the world. I'm John Bachelor with my

colleague and friend Gordon Chang at Gordon G. Chang. We welcome Brandon

We're welcome Brendan Weickert, author of Winning Space

How America remains a superpower.

Indeed, however, the Chinese Communist Party

ambition to copy everything America's done over the last 50 years

in exact duplicate and we now have a headline that requires explication.

Chinese researchers assess U.S. space situational awareness

call for boost in China's capabilities.

Okay, Brandon, what does that mean good day to you? Well good day

hello John and thank you for having me hello Gordon the what it what they're

saying is that China clearly senses that in order for them to

truly become the dominant space power they're going to need to do more now you and

I've spoken before about all of the capabilities in the last

decade alone that the Chinese have it developed for their plan of what they call space

dominance, but the Americans remain the number one space power, so they

need more in order to knock us from our perch. And so that's what this is. This is acknowledging

that China has got to invest more heavily in those capabilities that will allow for them to have

dominance in space.

Given examples, Brandon, what would an example be that China wants to invest more in to catch up.

What are they talking about?

Well, they've been talking about things like building out their own,

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