China Learns Lessons From Ukraine’s Use of Space

This week is the fourth and final episode of a month-long look at the different aspects of Russia’s War in Ukraine and space, the space business, and defense. It is highly recommended to listen to the prior episodes first, to understand how Ukraine is using American and European commercial space-based assets to close the kill-chain and achieve strategic decision-making advantage against Russia.

This episode’s focus is on what China, a major space-faring nation and space power, has learned from watching how Ukraine, a smaller outgunned and outmanned democratic nation, maintains access to and uses commercial space capabilities to control the strategic narrative and retake its sovereign territory from Russian forces. Laura Winter explores what these lessons are and how it has affected China’s war planning with Namrata Goswami, an independent scholar on space policy and great power politics and co-author of the book “Scramble for the Skies”; Malcolm Davis, who is a senior defense and space policy analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute; and Christopher Stone, a Senior Advisor and Consultant with Core-CSI, LLC, who is a former Special Assistant to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy, and author of “Reversing the Tao: A Framework for Credible Space Deterrence”