Executive Summary: BeiDou enhances both the PRC’s strategic autonomy and its influence across the world. It has signed agreements with numerous countries to expand its use, including for military applications. An interoperability agreement with the US government diminishes the strategic value of GPS by eliminating and altering the costs of switching over to BeiDou. BeiDou could successfully insulate the PRC …
Fascinating, thanks for sharing this. Makes the frontier of space and geopolitical and military focus more sense to me.