Did China hit and destroy a US satellite in 2007?

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1. Rivalry between China and the United States in space exploration has reached new heights, with a US general saying China was a threat that could block American access to space.

Just days after the launch of Beijing’s first lunar mission to bring samples back to Earth, US Space Force General John Raymond said the United States had to strengthen ties with its allies to handle the “threat” from China and Russia over space....

Raymond referred to an incident in 2007 when China hit and destroyed a US satellite. He said space had been a “benign domain” in 1991, but it was now a contested domain....

Source: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/dip...bes-china-threat-space-change-5-lunar-mission

2. Did China hit and destroy a US satellite in 2007, as claimed by US Space Force General John Raymond? It is unthinkable that the American Empire was so forgiving and merciful to let China off without meting out punishments or demanding compensations for being so bold as to "pull the tiger's whiskers" at that time unless as Mao Zedong said, "US Imperialism is a paper tiger."

The US space force general should know very well that the threat to the US does not come from other countries but from the rising moral decadence among many US politicians and military personnel. It is certainly not a good sign to see the US military and political arenas filled with so many "con artists" trying to fool the Americans and the rest of humanity. Such rise of shamelessness among the US military and politicians does not forebode well for the US. It is like a big cluster of cancer cells that keeps spreading and eventually destroying the fabric of the entire society and the empire. Instead of reaching the sky, the American Empire is going down, down, down to the very bottom of the abyss.

If the downright lie by the space force general is uttered not out of real intention but sheer ignorance, it shows that either he knows not what he is talking or he has been sleeping all this while. Good luck to the Pentagon for being a resting place for Rip Van Winkles! :)

Reference: https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a15940835/trump-shame-shamelessness/
 
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3. Minutes after this thread was posted, the website that reported the news just corrected its reporting error (or Raymond's misleading remark?) without clarification. The following is the website's correction:

“Raymond referred to an incident in 2007 when China hit and destroyed a disused Chinese weather satellite, testing its own missile capabilities. He said space had been a “benign domain” in 1991, but it was now a contested domain....”

Source: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/dip...bes-china-threat-space-change-5-lunar-mission

4. I am sure the website's reporting error (or Raymond's misleading remark?) has been read by many netizens before the correction. I chanced upon the misleading news after watching a news report by an Asian TV network. Anyway, we have to take note that no countries, including China, had ever complained or expressed alarm over the following "threatening US behaviour regarding space" many years ago: :)

(a) Sending the first men to the moon

On 21 July 1969, two American astronauts, Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, became the first men to set foot on the Moon.


(b) Collecting lunar samples

Between 1969 and 1972, six Apollo missions brought back 382 kilograms (842 pounds) of lunar rocks, core samples, pebbles, sand and dust from the lunar surface. The six space flights returned 2200 separate samples from six different exploration sites on the Moon.


(c) Conducting anti-satellite missile tests

...The first launch of the new anti-satellite missile took place in January 1984. The first, and only, successful interception was on 13 September 1985. The F-15 took off from Edwards Air Force Base, climbed to 11613 m (38100 ft) and vertically launched the missile at the Solwind P78-1, a U.S. gamma ray spectroscopy satellite orbiting at 555 km (345 mi), which was launched in 1979....

On 21 February 2008, the U.S. Navy destroyed the malfunctioning U.S. spy satellite USA-193 using a ship-fired RIM-161 Standard Missile 3...


5. As the US remains far ahead in its aerospace programmes, activities and technologies, it really makes itself a laughing stock by making such a big fuss over China's Chang’e-5 lunar mission. Once again I must stress that the US has to wake up to the reality that the threat to the country comes not from other countries but from the rising moral decadence and shamelessness among many of its politicians and military personnel. Such a downward spiral into the moral abyss will eventually bring about the collapse of the American Empire.

The Indian government announced in March 27, 2019 that it had successfully fired a ground-based anti-satellite weapon against a satellite in low Earth orbit. It is an irony that the US did not make any fuss over the Indian anti-satellite missile test. Such double standards are not only laughable but detestable.

 
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