US calls space a wild west. China says policing it normalises warfare | South China Morning Post

China is likely to shrug off the US' call for rules governing space behaviour because Beijing would view that as legitimising space militarisation, a Chinese expert said, as the nations' rivalry in the domain intensifies. It was this week revealed that in July a US surveillance satellite approached a Chinese satellite in orbit, and the latter quickly manoeuvred to escape being shadowed. This incident was another case of the frequent attempts at spying and counter-espionage in space among the United States, Russia and China, and added to concerns that risks of disastrous collisions in space were growing in line with…