Chinese military writings call space the "commanding height": whoever controls space controls information, and whoever controls information wins the conflict. Two lines therefore run in parallel:
- Building its own capability to see, track and strike an opponent at great distance — for example naval task groups in the western Pacific.
- Denying the opponent what it has in space, as part of what Chinese doctrine calls "systems confrontation": attacking not the weapons themselves, but the links between sensors and weapons.
That idea ties in with the kill chain and kill web described in the Intel Academy.