These are 2 quotes from Dr. Michael Pillsbury, China expert Pence mentioned in video Q linked to, where he brings up space.
Talking about war game scenarios he participated in:
“If I use Chinese style based on their writings for what they would do, attack our nerve centers first, for example, or attack our satellites in space during the first two hours of the war.”
Take the space program. We have two. We've always separated NASA for peaceful use of space, exploring planets, putting the astronauts on the moon, from the US Air Force- military use of space, and we built two separate infrastructures, roughly $70 billion each.
The Chinese said what's the sense of that? Let's just have one space infrastructure run by the military, and save money and let's get technology from the Russians and they like to get into the American NASA high-tech stuff as well. We've blocked them so far.
And so their space program has jumped ahead in the past ten years.
https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/has-china-been-duping-the-us-for-nearly-half-a-century