China rocket debris spurs calls for limiting space junk

US-China rivalry and acrimony complicates dealing with safety issues

MITSURU OBE, Nikkei Asia chief business news correspondent

TOKYO -- Few think that their backyards will ever be ground zero for junk falling from space, even after parts from one of the world's largest rockets dropped near the Maldives this month, and from another that peppered the Ivory Coast last year.

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