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China Watch: China Uses Ballistic Missile to Destroy a Satellite in Space

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Telegraph: Chinese missile destroys satellite in space

The prospect of “Star Wars” between China and the West loomed last night after Beijing used a ballistic missile to destroy a satellite in space.

The missile, which hit a 4ft-wide obsolete Chinese weather satellite 530 miles above the Earth, is thought to have been launched from the Xichang space centre in -China’s Sichuan province.

It suggests that the Chinese have developed a major new capability that underscores the communist regime’s desire to use its military might as well as burgeoning economic power to expand its influence.

“The US believes China’s development and testing of such weapons is inconsistent with the spirit of co-operation that both countries aspire to in the civil space area,” said Gordon Johndroe, spokes-man for the US National Security Council, yesterday. “We and other countries have expressed our concern regarding this action to the Chinese.”

It is understood that Australia and Canada have also protested to China.

Remember last summer when China was firing lasers to interfere with United States satellites.

And what Flap said at the time:

China is an ADVERSARY. Make NO mistake about it.

China has been unwilling or unable to contain North Korea’s nuclear amibtions and ICBM program.

China has been the chief apologist for Iran developing/acquiring nuclear weapons.

China is undertaking a massive military build-up and now directly attacks United States Spy Satellites.

What can it ALL mean?

China is NOT our friend and a Bamboo Cold War which has been underway since the 1940’s is blossoming.

The United States MUST be prepared for the coming confrontation and embark on strategies to combat the “militarization of space” by the Chinese and possibly the Russians.

Possible solutions:

Since the mid-1980s, the United States has had the ability to take down satellites, but the Chinese don’t have satellites worth attacking, Pike said. The United States may have to develop alternatives to its current spy satellites — perhaps stealthy satellites or unmanned aerial vehicles, which are harder to detect than the current well-established U.S. satellite network.

Reconnaissance satellites in low-Earth orbit — “eyes in the sky” — are essential to how the United States fights wars.

“Our space assets are the first asset on the scene,” Pike said. “They are absolutely central to why we are a superpower — a signature component to America’s style of warfare.”

Stay tuned…….

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