Evidence: Alphabetical
- Current trends point to increasing incentives for cooperative space security
- Currently, Limited Capacity to take Advantage of Space Surveillance Data
- Collabrative space surveillance data sharing would enhance, not undermine U.S. national security
- China could Retaliate Against U.S. Space Weapons by Forgoing Participation in other Security Initiatives that are in the U.S. National Interest
- Chinese attack on U.S. military satellites would require pre-positioning of as many as 36 mobile launchers, preparations likely to be caught in advance
- Cost exchange ratio for missile defense favors the attacker
- China Seeks Superpower Status by being Included on International Space Station
- China looking to reap national prestige from space activity
- Chinese ASAT Test Likely Solely a Show of Strength
- China has been Actively Working to Improve its Global Image
- Chinese Space Strategy is Foremost about Taiwan
- Costs of U.S. space weaponization outweigh benefits, Including the risks from accidental launch from vertical nuclear proliferation
- China's Investment in Anti-Satellite Weapons may make Space Arms Race Inevitable Regardless of U.S. Decisions
- China has Multiple Assymmetric Responses to U.S. Weaponization of Space
- China is most Concerned about Effect of U.S. Missile Defense on its Deterrent
- China's Committment to FMCT Dependent on Satisfactory Settlement of Space Weapons / Missile Defense Issue
- China could Decline to Ratify CTBT in Retaliation for US Space Weapons Push
- China has Multiple Ways to Respond to US Space Weapons, all of which would Negatively Impact Global Security
- China would View Space-Based Missile Defense as more Threatening than Ground-Based
- Claims of an Inevitable Threat to US Space Assets don't Hold up under Examination
- Continuous, Global SAR Coverage is Beyond Current Capabilities
- Consensus among Senior Defense Officials Shifting towards Non-Offensive Defense to Protect Space Assets
- China's ASAT Program took 20 years to Develop
- China Naively Assumed ASAT Test would not be Viewed as Provocative
- Cannot get maneuvering instructions to satellites fast enough to avoid missile attack
- China views its space program as critical to it's grand strategy
- China developing broad military space capability to enable its military to defend its borders and project power regionally
- Chinese ASAT Program only one Part of Broad Counterspace Effort
- Chinese space power significantly raises costs to U.S. of trying to deter China
- Current composition of U.S. space surveillance capabilities
- Competition over space resources has potential to foster conflict or cooperation
- China's ASAT Test was a Demonstration of its Asymmetrical Capability against America's Military
- Chinese ASAT Test was a Reaction to U.S. Attempt to Exert Space Hegemony
- Chinese ASAT Test was Meant to Dissuade US Deployment of Missile Defense
- Chinese Development of ASATs has Outpaced Intelligence Estimates
- Chinese ASATs could cripple American conventional military forces