China is building a huge network of satellites that could be used against US troops: intel chief [Video]

China has developed a network of hundreds of military satellites that could be used to target US troops, a Pentagon official warned.

Maj. Gen. Greg Gagnon, deputy chief of space operations for intelligence, told a conference on Thursday that China had developed a sophisticated military satellite program.

He said it could be used to track and target US troops moving to defend Taiwan, Defense One reported.

“It’s to provide indications and warnings of sailors, marines, airmen, trying to move west, if directed, to defend freedom,” Gagnon said.

“They will now—in a way that we’re not comfortable talking about in America—they will be inside a rapidly expanding weapons engagement zone.”

He went on to explain that means they can track their targets from a long-distance, even if those targets are mobile.

“Few countries have that advantage,” he said.

The US has long deployed a network of satellites to monitor potential threats, but Gagnon said that China had ended the US monopoly on using satellite …