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Kuan-Wei Chen, Executive Director, Centre for Research in Air and Space Law, McGill University

Amid tensions on Earth, the United States claims that 'conflict in space is not inevitable'

Avoiding conflict is essential to maintaining space as a global commons, to be used by all. (Shutterstock)

In 1996, Joseph W. Ashy, former U.S. commander-in-chief of the North American Aerospace Defense Command, famously said: “We’re going to fight in space. We’re going to fight from space and we’re going to fight into space.”

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