Two months ago, I wrote a blog post entitled Zhang Liying: China’s Missile Gal.
At issue were a pair of quotations in an unclassified publication from the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) that suggested China was building anti-satellite weapons:
Challenges to Space Superiority, published by the National Air and Space Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, highlights two quotations by “Liying Zhan” of the “Langfang Army Missile Academy” to suggest that China will “threaten on-orbit assets.”
Gregory [Kulacki of the Union of Concerned Scientists] tracked down the original article (here is the article in Chinese) after I noticed the quotes seemed, well, too good to be true.
Turns out, I was right. The term “translation” is less appropriate than, say, “distorted hack job.”
Now, Gregory Kulacki and David Wright have written An Analysis of a March 2005 Report by the U.S. National Air and Space Intelligence Center (15 September 2005).
Check it out.
