China does not want to leave anything to chance in case if a space war breaks out with military rivals like U.S. Even though the possibility of a space war looks very distant, but chances of such an extreme eventuality cannot be ruled out in today's unpredictable times.

According to Chinese military expert Richard Fisher, Chinese military is in the middle of processing its own arsenal of lasers, electromagnetic railguns and high-power microwave weapons that will be specifically used against the 'light war' satellite attacks.

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Fisher, who works with the International Assessment and Strategy Center, shed light on China's highly secretive laser weapons program during last month's congressional testimony. He anticipated that China may use its future space stations to launch an attack on the key U.S. satellites.    

"The Chinese government would not hesitate to use the lives of its astronauts as a shield to deceive the world about the real purpose of its space station,' said Fisher at the congressional testimony.

He further warned that Chinese "combat space station could begin attacks against key US satellites, thus blinding the US to the launch of new combat satellites that would attack many more US satellites."  

Fisher encouraged the U.S. policy makers and military strategists to actively respond to China's space war program. "The US must possess options for at least neutralizing potential threats, preferably short of threatening lives," he added.    

Certain reports in the U.S. media claim that the American government is already in the process of developing what has been widely termed as a 'super weapon,' the 'Railgun projectile launcher.' This experimental weapon promises to give a new edge to the U.S. military as it has potential to even bring down nuclear missiles. But it is still not known whether it is powerful enough to destroy satellites swirling through the earth's lower orbit.

The world got the first big sniff about China's secretive 'laser weapon system' program when three Chinese researchers Gao Ming-hui, Zeng Yu-quang and Wang Zhi-hong proposed the idea in the journal Chinese Optics in December 2013.  

Anti-satellite weapons will be 'very important' in future wars, with the space-based laser weapon system being one of the major developments, they wrote in the article.

The U.S. has been long critical about China's space program, alleging that much of its ambitious space program is used to advance its secretive military technologies. China has apparently pumped in billions of dollars into its space missions in a bid to catch up with the western nations.

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