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China regards its space programme as an inherent expression of its comprehensive national power for furthering its political, economic, and military interests. Driven by focused political vision, China has developed significant space capabilities, thereby transforming itself into an advanced space power. The opaque intentions and policies of China on its unsettled territorial borders and claims in South China Sea, coupled with rapid strides in space technology implies that China’s improving military space capabilities could be used decisively against an adversary during a future conflict, to provide support for long-range precision strikes and threatening the adversary’s space-based assets. It is therefore pertinent to examine China’s military space capabilities and the threat they pose for our national security. The rapid militarization of space by China poses a serious geostrategic challenge to India. The increasingly complex and competitive geopolitical situation demands that India protects its national interests by instituting effective countermeasures to deal with the threat from China’s emergence as a space power.