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PDB Afternoon Bulletin | May 16th, 2025: China Develops Space-Based 'Kill Web' To Defeat The U.S. & Israel's Secret Talks With Syria's Islamist Regime
16 May 2025
In this episode of The PDB Afternoon Bulletin: First, America’s space chief is sounding the alarm on Russian and Chinese advances in space-based warfare, including Beijing’s “kill web” satellite network, Moscow’s intention to put a nuclear weapon into orbit, and their joint project to build a permanent moon base by mid-2030. We’ll have the details. Later in the show—in a surprising development, we are learning that Israel is engaged in secret talks with the new Islamist regime in Syria. The discussions are reportedly aimed at reducing tensions between the longtime adversaries, and at potentially having Damascus join the Abraham Accords, which would further erode Iran’s strategic interests in the Middle East. To listen to the show ad-free, become a premium member of The President’s Daily Brief by visiting PDBPremium.com. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The President's Daily Brief. YouTube: youtube.com/@presidentsdailybrief Birch Gold: Text PDB to 989898 and get your free info kit on gold DeleteMe: Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you text PDB to 64000. Message and data rates apply TriTails Premium Beef: Visit https://TryBeef.com/PDB for 2 free Flat Iron steaks with your first box over $250 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Full Episode
It's Friday, the 16th of May. Welcome to the PDB Afternoon Bulletin. I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage. All right, let's get briefed. Up first on today's bulletin, America's Space Chief, which honestly might be the coolest job title,
has issued a grave warning about Russian and Chinese advances in space-based warfare, including Beijing's KillWeb satellite network, Moscow's intention to put a nuclear weapon into orbit, and their joint project, between China and Russia, to build a permanent moon base by mid-2030. We'll have the details.
Later in the show, in a surprising development, we're learning that Israel is engaged in secret talks with the new Islamist regime in Syria on the possibility of joining the Abraham Accords in a potential bid to further erode Iran's strategic interests in the Middle East. Now, that would be in the top 10 geopolitical developments of 2025. But first, today's afternoon spotlight.
We'll begin today with a look at the final frontier of warfare as the US, Russia, and China vie for military supremacy in space. America's space chief sounded the alarm on Thursday on the emerging threat posed by Russia and China in the vast beyond, warning that what's referred to as Beijing's satellite kill web poses the biggest risk to US forces.
Speaking at Politico's Security Summit on Thursday, General B. Chance Saltzman, chief of space operations, said it's imperative for America to move swiftly to disrupt the efforts of America's top adversaries to weaponize space before they gain an edge over U.S. capabilities.
China's growing satellite network is of particular concern to Saltzman, who said it can precisely target the location of US forces, preemptively giving, of course, the communist regime valuable intelligence about American troop positions and operations before military objectives can be met. This network reportedly puts forces in the Indo-Pacific region at the greatest risk.
Saltzman said, quote, the PRC has developed what we've kind of, you know, tongue in cheek called a kill web. Doesn't sound tongue in cheek. And it's nothing more than a series of hundreds of satellites that are a sensor network that provide real time updates targeting quality information of our force. He continued, quote, this is a huge problem.
That's why we have to build our capabilities to try to disrupt that so that when we're trying to achieve military objectives, our soldiers, sailors, and airmen are safe and not under this umbrella of a very accurate, very long-range set of weapons. But it's not just China.
America's space chief warned that Russia is demonstrating similar strength in this arena, pinpointing three major areas of concern in Moscow's space technology development. First, he points to what he described as their kinetic kill capability.
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