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48 Ga. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 731 (2019-2020)
Reflections on Space Governance by China and Japan

handle is hein.journals/gjicl48 and id is 743 raw text is: REFLECTIONS ON SPACE GOVERNANCE BY CHINA AND JAPAN SaadiaM Pekkanen* I am very glad to have the opportunity to reflect on the theme of space governance at a historical juncture in a changing world order. Governing outer space is getting harder to do, with the changing technologies in space activi- ties, the rise of new stakeholders, and the geopolitical flux around us today.' We are talking about developing peaceful relations through governance frameworks in a space domain in which peace is not a given. In fact, peaceful prospects in outer space are at a low point, and outright conflict is a distinct possibility. So, it is all the more important today to think about the building blocks of space governance, and what is and is not possible if we want to avoid conflict and war in and through space. I will be concentrating my remarks on two spacefaring countries, China and Japan, to give a regional flavor to broader global debates about space governance. China and Japan are of course not new entrants, but long-standing and established ones. They are also embedded within the global legal govern- ing frameworks. As some of the world's top, technically competent, and po- litically ambitious space powers, what China and Japan do or don't do at the domestic and regional levels is also significantly likely to shape the peaceful prospects for outer space. Like all other spacefaring powers today, they too have to perform the balancing act between encouraging democratization, boosting commercialization, and containing militarization. This is where space governance needs to situate itself, with attention to the role of states and industrial strategies, including national interests in strategic dual-use sectors like space. Given their pivotal status in the world order today, the interests of the Japanese and Chinese states are especially pivotal as a handful of the world's top and independent space powers who back and consume technolo- gies, make strategies and policies, and, of interest here, put their own designs on governance. * Saadia M. Pekkanen is the Job and Gertrud Tamaki Endowed Professor in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, Adjunct Professor of Law, and the Co-Found- ing Director of the Space Policy and Research Center (SPARC) at the University of Wash- ington. She thanks the Center for Global Partnership (CGP) for financial support on this project. She can be reached at smpl uw.edu. 1 Paul B. Larsen, Outer Space: How Shall the World's Governments Establish Order Among Competing Interests? 29 WASH. L. REV. 1, 1-60.

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