MAUI SPACE SURVEILLANCE COMPLEX, Hawaii —China is “intentionally trying to do things” in space “so we don’t see it,” from changing the brightness of their satellites to maneuvering in what it believes are the United States’ blind spots, and the U.S. Space Force has to “keep pace, and we’ve got to keep advancing our capabilities so that that’s harder and harder for them to do,” the chief of space operations said this week.

“If you’re going to do something irresponsible, we’re going to see it. We’re going to tell the world, and then we’re going to react and respond,” Gen. Chance Saltzman said in an interview.

But the general noted that talking about it—even while standing on the windy roof of the Pentagon’s largest telescope , which itself sits atop a 10,023-foot volcano—is much easier

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