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• Dustin Volz, Edward Wong
Internal U.S. intelligence assessments, including a Pentagon Defense Intelligence Agency report, warn that China could obtain sensitive F-35 technology through espionage or cooperation with Saudi Arabia. The findings complicate potential U.S. approval of Riyadh’s acquisition and highlight the technology-security risks surrounding advanced fighter exports.
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Internal U.S. intelligence assessments, including a Pentagon Defense Intelligence Agency report, warn that China could obtain sensitive F-35 technology through espionage or cooperation with Saudi Arabia. The findings complicate potential U.S. approval of Riyadh’s acquisition and highlight the technology-security risks surrounding advanced fighter exports.
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The US Air Force has acknowledged deploying weapons in orbit to counter threats from Russia and China, but provided few details about the capability. China condemned the move, while officials and experts highlighted the risk that space-based conflict—including nuclear disruption of satellites—could outpace existing defenses.
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NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman told a military audience that the intensifying U.S.-China lunar competition could influence future alliances, technology standards and perceptions of American power. His remarks position the Artemis-era return to the moon as a strategic contest extending beyond exploration and science.
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NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman describes broad leadership and organizational reforms while repositioning the agency around building a permanent base on the moon. He frames China and Russia’s strategy for the lunar South Pole as creating urgency for U.S. exploration and national space policy.
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The first day of World Space Business Week 2026 highlighted a widening gap between abundant investment and maturing commercial models. ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher is taking a crew-transport decision to Rome, while China accounts for 19 of the 40 operational launchers worldwide.
President Donald Trump dismissed a report that Chinese entities provided Iran with satellite imagery of a U.S. military base in Jordan before and after an Iranian strike that killed three American troops in July. Trump said China spies on the United States, adding that the U.S. conducts similar activity against China.
U.S. officials say Iran obtained high-resolution satellite images of a U.S. base in Jordan from Chinese entities before a July attack that killed three American troops. The account highlights the military value of commercial or state-linked Earth observation data in active conflicts.
China’s telecommunications regulator has issued a roadmap for expanding the country’s satellite network through the end of the decade, building on a national five-year plan released in March. The plan signals continued government direction for satellite communications and related space infrastructure.
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