1、April 2023 DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT A.Cleared for Public Release DOP-2023-U-035269-Final CNA Occasional Paper|1 Testimony Prepared for the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission Hearing on Chinas Pursuit of Defense Technologies:Implications for US and Multilateral Export Control and Investme
2、nt Screening Regimes PRC Space and Missile Capabilities April 13,2023 Kevin Pollpeter Senior Research Scientist,China and Indo-Pacific Security Affairs Division,CNA Chairmen Bartholomew and Wong and members of the Commission,thank you for inviting me back to testify before you today on the important
3、 topic of Peoples Republic of China(PRC)space and missile capabilities.Space and missile technologies are central to the PRCs efforts to build strategic deterrent and conventional warfighting capabilities.Since its inception in 1956,the PRC space and missile program has stressed“self-reliance”(自立更生)
4、in developing its space and missile programs.Despite this adherence to relying on its own abilities,foreign assistance has played an instrumental role in advancing Chinas space and missile program.In fact,despite far-reaching US export control restrictions on space and missile technologies,the PRC h
