Mallory Stewart, the State Department’s deputy assistant secretary for emerging security challenges and defense policy, called a 2007 anti-satellite test by the Chinese military a “remarkable incident of irresponsible behavior” during a Jan. 11 speech. | Credit: The Atlantic Council.

WASHINGTON – The outcry that followed the Chinese military’s 2007 destruction of a weather satellite and the immediate creation of thousands of pieces of space junk has helped dissuade China from conducting similar debris-generating tests, a U.S. State Department official said.

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