"The US is the greatest threat to space security and the most-likely instigator of a space arms race, Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Zhang Xiaogang has said. According to the ministry’s website, Zhang was responding to recent “irresponsible” statements by the commander of the United States Space Command, General Stephen N. Whiting. The US general earlier accused China of developing a space arsenal and threatened to deploy anti-satellite weapons targeting Russia and China in 2025."

“The US has been using the so-called ‘China threat in space’ as a pretext to deploy anti-satellite weapons,” Zhang told a press briefing on Friday. “It is a pure distortion of facts,” he added.

The spokesman pointed out that the US defines space as a “war-fighting domain” as it continues to expand its space forces and form military alliances.