US Congress recommends placing assets at Lagrange points to counter China

Enlarge / Lagrange points are positions in space where the gravitational forces of a two-body system like the Sun and Earth produce enhanced regions of attraction and repulsion. (credit: NASA)

A bipartisan committee in the US House of Representatives recently issued a report on the economic and technological competition between the United States and China and offered nearly 150 recommendations to "fundamentally reset" the relationship.

The report followed a year-long study of the competition between the countries since China's entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001.

"The Chinese Communist Party has pursued a multi-decade campaign of economic aggression against the United States and its allies in the name of strategically decoupling the People’s Republic of China from the global economy, making the PRC less dependent on the United States in critical sectors, while making the United States more dependent on (China)," the report states.