Trump calls for 'Space Force', nations talk space peace

GENEVA: On the surface, this looks like a terrible moment for the world’s major military powers to negotiate a deal on preventing an arms race in space.

Despite those headwinds, experts from 25 countries – including China, Russia and the US – open a 10-day meeting in Geneva Monday aiming to lay the groundwork for a treaty to keep space peaceful.“I hope I am not just indulging in wishful thinking here but I do see some positive initiatives against this rather dark background,” said Paul Meyer, Canada’s former disarmament ambassador and an expert on space security at The Simons Foundation in Vancouver.

Patriota told reporters the level of dialogue at the first GGE meeting in August was “several notches” better than in the past, with China and Russia indicating an openness to new ideas. “Asymmetrical capabilities are big,” Jessica West, project manager of the 2018 Space Security Index report, told AFP.Meyer, also the ex-head of the intelligence bureau at Canada’s foreign ministry, told AFP that another factor creating diplomatic momentum is that space “is no longer just a rich man’s club”.

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