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SpaceContainment W/ AlliancesThe policy of containment with alliances will prevent China from operations in spaceSouth Front in 2015 (Analysis Intelligence, public analytical project maintained by an independent team of experts from the four corners of the Earth focusing on international relations issues and crises and working through a number of media platforms with a special emphasis on social networks; “FOREIGN POLICY DIARY – THE US-CHINA STANDOFF IN THE INDO-ASIA-PACIFIC REGION;” South Front Analysis Intelligence Foreign Policy; July 31, 2015; https://southfront.org/foreign-policy-diary-the-us-china-standoff-in-the-indo-asia-pacific-region/) The strategy reinforces the continued need to strengthen partnerships and alliances by stressing the importance of operating in NATO maritime groups and participating in international training exercises. The US strategy emphasizes operating forward and making proxies across the globe, especially in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. The US containment policy against China includes not only holding of old alliances but a creating of new. In the recent strategy Washington pledges to strengthen cooperation with six long-standing allies: Australia, Japan, New Zealand, the Philippines, the Republic of Korea, Thailand and lists eight new partners: Bangladesh, Brunei, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Micronesia, Pakistan, Singapore, Vietnam. With help of its Asian allies the US are going to seal off the PLA Navy in South China Sea and prevent its moving in operations space. Further, the Washington’s diplomatic rhetoric over the long-standing allies, shared strategic interests and cooperation in Asia, in fact, aimed on establishing a ground coalition against China. U.S. strategic purpose is to seal off the PLA Navy in South China Sea and prevent its moving in operations space and encircle China by land. In this order, the U.S. holds old and sets up new alliances with nations in Indo-Asia-Pacific region. Empirics prove containment strategies can be put into place to secure a strategic border in spaceLister in 2011 (Charles R, Written by a student and assessed as a part of a university degree; “US Missile Defence and Space Security: a Security Dilemma for China?” E-International Relations Students, the world’s leading open access website for students and scholars of international politics, featuring high quality scholarly content and student-facing resources; March 18, 2011; http://www.e-ir.info/2011/03/18/american-missile-defence-and-space-security-a-security-dilemma-for-china/) The United States (U.S.) has been a global superpower for decades and will surely remain so for some time to come. Nevertheless, as is natural in an international system composed of many competing states, one’s place on the power ladder is constantly being challenged. Just as the Soviet Union confronted American primacy during the Cold War, a rising China is expected to do so in the future. Well aware of this threat to its dominance, the U.S. is keen to empower its Asian allies and maintain a status quo in terms of Beijing’s power position. Ever since the Soviet Union’s demise, the U.S. has employed military and security strategies to consolidate its own power and contain that of others. Two critical and indeed linked strategies for this have been Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) and Space Security. Despite the ever-expanding influences of globalization and economic interdependence, the U.S., from a Chinese perspective, was still threatened by a rising China and sought to overwhelm Chinese military power projection capacity, to strategically ‘contain’ China (meiguo dui hua e-zhi zhanlue)[10] by upgrading the U.S. regional security alliance network, and to secure long-term “absolute security”[11] by securing what Huang Zhicheng has termed “a strategic external border in space.” China on the rise in space – US primacy necessary to secure space superiority.Cheng 11, Dean, Senior Research Fellow, Asian Studies Center, China’s Space Program: A Growing Factor in U.S. Security Planning, Heritage, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/08/chinas-space-program-a-growing-factor-in-us-security-planning In the past several years, China’s space efforts have become increasingly prominent. Recent Chinese achievements have included the third manned Shenzhou mission and a space walk, expansion of the indigenous Chinese Compass satellite navigation system, and deployment of a range of new remote sensing satellites, such as the Yaogan series. At the same time, there has been growing concern that China may be pursuing a policy of space dominance, including programs specifically oriented toward counterspace operations. The best known example is the 2007 anti-satellite (ASAT) test, which generated an enormous orbital debris field. Since then, the Chinese have conducted further tests with potential anti-satellite implications. In January 2010, they undertook a test that involved “two geographically separated missile launch events with an exo-atmospheric collision.”[1] Between June and August 2010, two Chinese satellites, SJ-06F and SJ-12, engaged in orbital rendezvous maneuvers that appeared to include “bumping” into each other.[2] Such activities, undertaken deliberately, would be useful for practicing docking maneuvers or anti-satellite operations. In addition, contrary to international custom, China gave no prior notice of any of these tests, which has heightened concerns and underscored the opaque nature of China’s space program. The growing Chinese counterspace capabilities threaten American space superiority, the ability of the United States to support friends and allies in the western Pacific, and American deterrence of potential aggression. The U.S. government needs to take steps to ensure that it maintains the ability to secure space superiority. 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