China opposes the development of anti-satellite weapons.
The white paper says that the international community, the big powers with the capacity to utilize outer space in particular, should take realistic steps to prevent a weaponized outer space. The international community should also ban the use of force or conduct of hostilities in, from or to outer space, all countries should undertake neither to experiment with, produce or deploy outer space weapons nor to utilize outer space to seek strategic advantages on the ground, for example, using disposition of the important parts of ground anti-missile systems in outer space for the purpose of developing strategic defensive weapons, the white paper says.