China, Pakistan intelligence-sharing partnership may exploit for private firms

Beijing : Pakistan-China partnership over intelligence-sharing may set to exploit the private firm like Singapore-based Space Chain, said a new study.
According to Geopolitica.info, China sold its first optical remote sensing satellite to Pakistan in 2018 for civilian purposes, although it seems to have quite substantial military applications as well.
Now as Pakistan aims to expand its space development, PRSS-02 (an Earth Observation Satellite) which the country is in the process of buying will only add teeth to Pakistan’s space capabilities, which China is set to exploit through commercial fronts like Spacechain.
The Chinese plan is to share the PRSS-02 data through the Shanghai Academy, but in order to enable this cooperation China has asked Pakistan to engage the Singapore-based M/s Space Chain, a “community-based space platform that intends to build an open and neutral infrastructure for the New Space Economy by integrating space and blockchain technologies”, according to its website, Geopolitica.info reported.
It is hard to believe that the Shanghai Academy’s plan to share critical data accessed from other satellites using the Singapore firm comes without direct supervision from the Chinese State, said Geopolitica.info.
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