On October 10 local time, Evan Rogers, CEO of the American space and defense technology startup True Anomaly, stated in a Bloomberg program that China is "undoubtedly" ahead of the United States in certain space offensive and defensive capabilities, while calling for increased investment from the U.S. government. Rogers emphasized the "China threat" to raise the sense of crisis in the American aerospace industry. He claimed that competition between China and the U.S. is intensifying, with the space domain viewed as a "potential battlefield," and China being a "major competitor" in this regard
