As Europe’s Space Dreams Appear to Crumble, Beijing Secures the Orbital Digital High Ground

From Beijing’s strategic vantage point, this past week’s inaugural International Space Summit in Paris laid bare the profound structural vulnerabilities and internal fractures plaguing Europe’s quest for independent aerospace power.

While French President Emmanuel Macron attempted to rally European nations with a 20 billion euro investment pledge and a push for crewed spaceflight within a decade, the summit was immediately hobbled by what China viewed as heavy-handed American interference and a lack of continental consensus.…

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