Is China's New Satellite A Military Game Changer?

Gordon G. Chang, Gatestone Institute: China's 'Satellite Crusher': 'Space Pearl Harbor' Is Coming 

* The satellite, according to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp., is "tasked with demonstrating technologies to alleviate and neutralize space debris." 

* As Beijing sees it, American satellites constitute "debris." 

* "[Communist China's satellite] is a real-world offensive capability that can hunt and destroy American systems and render the U.S. military on earth deaf, dumb, and blind." — Brandon Weichert, author of Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower, to Gatestone. 

* At one time, America was dominant in space, and American political leaders decided to go slow on developing anti-satellite weapons for fear of triggering a competition. 

* All that American restraint did was to allow the Chinese and Russian militaries to grab commanding leads in the race to deploy these impossible-to-defend-against delivery systems for nuclear weapons. 

* Unfortunately, "the Department of Defense is still unbelievably bureaucratic and slow." 

* The Pentagon's bureaucracy "is just brutal." — Outgoing Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General John Hyten, CNN, October 28, 2021. 

* Fortunately, there is also Elon Musk, a bureaucracy of one. 

On October 24, China launched its Shijian-21 into orbit. 

The satellite, according to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp., is "tasked with demonstrating technologies to alleviate and neutralize space debris." As Beijing sees it, American satellites constitute "debris."  

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WNU Editor: The above author, Gordon G. Chang, has been preaching doom and gloom on China for a very long time. But he does have a point in the above post. China is focused on militarizing space to an entirely new level, and they are not going to stop. 

Meanwhile, on the US side, it seems the focus is on aliens .... NASA chief Bill Nelson latest official to suggest UFOs have otherworldly origins (The Hill).

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