“The China challenge is not just a challenge for INDOPACOM,” Lt. Gen. Max Pearson, the Air Force’s deputy chief of staff for intelligence, said during a panel discussion at AFA’s Air, Space, and Cyber conference. “In addition to the support base in Djibouti … the PLA continues to pursue military installations, [cooperative agreements] and partnerships in a lot of places. Gen. Brian Sidari, the deputy chief of space operations for intelligence, said the Air Force and Space Force must be “proactive” and “think globally” in regards to China. “We need to think in simultaneity and not sequentially…We need to throw dilemmas up globally to make them choose…to be reactive,” he said. Sidari also said he’s worried about how quickly China has been developing space capabilities.