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by Aviation Week reports that U.S. officials believe China recently tested an anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon on January 11. The U.S. National Security Strategy warns that potential adversaries, such as China, will likely develop disruptive technologies to counter specific U.S. military advantages rather than try to compete in all categories. Has U.S. space policy, including our own dabbling with ASAT technology and missile defense, had anything to do with this, or was this an inevitable progression of expanding Chinese military power? Is this a step toward application, such blinding Taiwan's defenses and severely degrading our ability to intervene?
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Updates, from New Scientist Mag
New Scientist has three updates to this story.
The first describes the test and claims that it used simple technology. Since the US and Soviet Union conducted similar tests around 30 years ago, that's certainly plausible. Incidentally, this has started to generate an uproar because of the space debris (the second New Scientist article). That's why the US and Soviet Union stopped ASAT tests in the first place, not because we feared the other would take our satellites out. Finally, China is trying to hand-wave the whole thing away by saying "There's no need to feel threatened about this, " Jianchao told journalists. "We are not going to get into any arms race in space."
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Some smart cookies by Anonymous :: NR0 :: Show
Those Chinese are smart, no doubt about it. We need to keep them in check with corresponding technolgocial advances.