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program initiated by the American company SpaceX. Its original intention is to build
an interconnection system of low Earth orbit satellites so as to provide high-speed
Internet services for the populations across the globe. However, the US government
and military are constantly present in the development process of the Starlink
program, which corresponds to the new mode of transformation of the US space
security strategy that aims to realize a new generation of “global satellite Internet
communications system” featured by full coverage and US technology domination.
From the perspective of technology and market competition, the implementation of
Starlink will exert a significant impact on the existing 5G communications
technology and the future space-based Internet system. And viewed from a more
in-depth perspective of international and national security, the Starlink program that
relies on the United States’ highly mature civil-military integration system and space
security transformation strategy will constitute a “composite and cross-cutting” new
challenge to international security and security of other countries in such areas as
national defense, industrial value chain, information sovereignty and regulation, use
of orbit and spectrum resources, space exploitation and astronomical exploration.
[Keywords] international security, national security, Starlink program, 5G, US
civil-military integration, industrial value chain
[Authors] YU Nanping, Chief Expert of Shanghai Decision Consulting Base/Yu
Nanping Studio and Professor of School of Advanced International and Area Studies
of East China Normal University; YAN Jiajie, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Advanced
International and Area Studies, East China Normal University (Shanghai, 200062).

92 Global Infrastructure Issue in the “Development-Security” Nexus
MAO Weizhun

[Abstract] Being both public goods and strategic instruments, global infrastructure,
with a clear connotation of development and security, tends to be embedded into the
“development-security” nexus in international politics. Great-power strategic
competition has injected strong political momentum into both global infrastructure
construction and the “development-security” nexus in the international community.
The interaction between them is promoting a more complicated convergence of the
two subjects of development and security at different levels, expanding the scope of
application of the “development-security” nexus in international politics and
reinforcing the dependence of infrastructure on “development and security”. At the
same time, the interaction between infrastructure and the “development-security”
nexus takes on a model of “spiral layering” and such interconnectivity will be
further strengthened through the three-dimensional configuration logic as regards
subjects under discussion, the dual construction logic concerning institutions, and
the systematic embedding logic regarding the evolution process. Therefore, a
“development-infrastructure-security” nexus is emerging. The new nexus is about to
reshape the two major subjects of security and development and thus exert an impact

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