Much of the report is focused on how high-technology space systems allow the Chinese military to better conduct war fighting, through such means as improved targeting over long distances and gathering intelligence.

“Greater Chinese competence in leveraging space technologies for military use may complicate U.S. freedom of action in the Asia-Pacific region,” the report said. “Over the next 10-15 years, more advanced precision strike assets, integrated with persistent space-based surveillance, a single integrated air and space picture, and survivable communications architecture, could enable greater confidence in contesting a broader range of sovereignty and territorial claims around China’s periphery.”

One specific goal of space capabilities is to field weapons against “U.S. long-range precision strike capabilities expected to be in place over the next 10-15 years.”

Those U.S. systems include new space planes and high-speed delivery systems for missiles and other weaponry.