Great Power Competition
USCC
THE FINAL FRONTIER: CHINA’SAMBITIONS TO DOMINATE SPACE
13 December, 2025
China has embarked on a whole-of-government strategy to be-
come the world’s preeminent space power. Beijing views space as
a warfighting domain and it seeks to achieve space superiority as
a cornerstone of its broader effort to establish information domi-
nance—a prerequisite to controlling the battlespace and gaining
operational advantage in future conflicts. To this end, China has
rapidly developed, deployed, and operationalized advanced capa-
bilities in space launch, satellites, and ground-based infrastruc-
ture spanning its civil, military, and commercial sectors. These
advancements are closing the gap in the strategic competition
between the United States and China in space....
