Brazil’s Chinese Space Facilities Draw U.S. Alarm

2026-03-13 - 11:53

Key Points — A U.S. Congressional report titled “Pulling Latin America into China’s Orbit” identifies two Chinese-linked facilities in Brazil — the Tucano Ground Station in Bahia and a joint radio astronomy laboratory in Paraíba — as potential dual-use military infrastructure within a network of at least 11 Chinese space installations across five Latin American