Outer Space

Reversing China's long-standing opposition to space weaponisation and lending support to the US suspicion over China military expansion, General Xu Qiliang, the PLA air force chief, made some hot-headed remarks such as China's plan to build weapons in space is a "historical inevitability". But later the same General Xu denied China's development of an anti-satellite laser weapon site in Xinjiang, saying it was for peaceful purposes.