Star Wars Weapons: Is Fantasy Becoming Fact? -- Inside Story/Al Jazeera
Advances in hi-tech weaponry fuel fears of a global space arms race.
It conjures up visions of sci-fi movies and video games but advances in high-tech weaponry are raising fears of a space arms race.
China is looking to boost its military power in space. Visiting air force headquarters on Monday, President Xi Jinping told officers to 'speed up air and space integration and sharpen their offensive and defensive capabilities'.
Beijing maintains that its space programme is peaceful but that stance was questioned when China used a ground-based missile to destroy one of its own satellites in orbit in 2007; and a rocket launch last May, billed as a research mission, was suspected of being a test for a new anti-satellite weapon.
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