Here's a couple of quotes about the subject from another news article (click here). We want to preserve our right to do the space war testing, but don't want others to do the same. My understanding is that any kind of war involving space would seal us into this planet for a very long time, as debris from the war would be circling the earth as an impenetrable barrier.
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"The Bush administration has long resisted a global treaty banning such tests because it says it needs freedom of action in space."
"Arms control experts called the ...

Here's a couple of quotes about the subject from another news article (click here). We want to preserve our right to do the space war testing, but don't want others to do the same. My understanding is that any kind of war involving space would seal us into this planet for a very long time, as debris from the war would be circling the earth as an impenetrable barrier.
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"The Bush administration has long resisted a global treaty banning such tests because it says it needs freedom of action in space."
"Arms control experts called the test, in which the weapon destroyed an aging Chinese weather satellite, a troubling development that could foreshadow an antisatellite arms race. Alternatively, however, some experts speculated that it could precede a diplomatic effort by China to prod the Bush administration into negotiations on a weapons ban."
In late August, President Bush authorized a new national space policy that ignored calls for a global prohibition on such tests. The policy said the United States would “preserve its rights, capabilities, and freedom of action in space” and “dissuade or deter others from either impeding those rights or developing capabilities intended to do so.” It declared the United States would “deny, if necessary, adversaries the use of space capabilities hostile to U.S. national interests.”
The Chinese test “could be a shot across the bow,” said Theresa Hitchens, director of the Center for Defense Information, a private group in Washington that tracks military programs. “For several years, the Russians and Chinese have been trying to push a treaty to ban space weapons. The concept of exhibiting a hard-power capability to bring somebody to the negotiating table is a classic cold war technique.”
"Experts said the weather satellite’s speeding remnants could