U.S. Threatened To Take Military Action Against China Over Arms Race In Space -- The Daily Mail
* WikiLeaks documents reveal battle for supremacy above the Earth in 2007
* Both superpowers destroyed their own satellites with missile strikes in show of strength
The U.S. warned China it could take military action in response to Beijing’s use of space missiles, it has emerged.
Leaked diplomatic documents reveal that the U.S. shot down one of its own satellites to demonstrate its ballistic power after China had destroyed its own weather satellite.
And despite being threatened with military action in 2007 by then U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, China carried out another missile test only last year.
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