Beijing secretly fires lasers to disable US satellites

[G2099]

China has secretly fired powerful laser weapons designed to disable American spy satellites by "blinding" their sensitive surveillance devices, it was reported yesterday.

The hitherto unreported attacks have been kept secret by the Bush administration for fear that it would damage attempts to co-opt China in diplomatic offensives against North Korea and Iran.

Sources told the military affairs publication Defense News that there had been a fierce internal battle within Washington over whether to make the attacks public. In the end, the Pentagon's annual assessment of the growing Chinese military build-up barely mentioned the threat.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/26/wchina226.xml

[niallmac]

1. This could threaten Sino Walmart relations. Very dangerous.n/t

[Thickasabrick]

2. That really is fascinating....I wonder if it's true? I also wonder if

the Chinese have satellites that can spy on us....couldn't we just fire on them?

[struggle4progress]

20. It's The Telegraph -- a most unreliable source with an agenda

[Gman]

3. Ever since China captured that plane and sent it back in pieces

Bush hasn't had the balls to take on a really big dog. Ever the bully, he's much more content picking on the Iraqs, Koreas and Venezuelas of the world.

[sam sarrha]

4. the truth is they just want to keep Walmart in cheap chinese shit..!!

cant sell out the rest of the economy to china if we get pissed and boycott them.. and the Olympics

[LiberalArkie]

5. The truth is there is not a damn thing the US can do any more.

Think of what life would be over here if China cut off trade with the U.S.

[havocmom]

6. Or called in the debt. They own our asses

thanks to bushco deficit.

[KT2000]

7. I say - lets bomb all the factories!!

Ooops - nevermind.
We would be sitting here without lightbulbs, electronic equipment needed to run military hardware, shower curtains, cookware, clothing, toys, vases, tools, furniture, bedding, office equipment, dishes, glassware, silverware, water jugs, curtains, radios, garden supplies, tires, lamps, hair supplies,......... etc

[sweetheart]

11. but we're knee deep in assholes!!

Bummer about comparative advantage.

[KT2000]

14. LOL...........

yeah - that whole thinking ahead can be so boring.

[originalpckelly]

8. We still have a couple thousand more nukes than they do...

so I doubt they will go much further. But this just moved the doomsday clock ahead a couple of hours. THIS IS SERIOUS!

[Thickasabrick]

9. According to our "intelligence". In reality, we really don't know

how many they have.

[Random_Australian]

21. Naw, you lot have Hydrogen ones. (Well, deuterium actually),

and lots of them.

Building a nuke like that is not easily hidden. For example, when the Manhatten Project did the step in the process where they purify by isotope, it needed more power than Manhatten itself.

:)

But yes, you don't really know how many they have.

But if you wanted to make as many as America has (why on earth would you even need to do that) then it would be some task keeping it secret.

Making a few would be much easier, of course. :)

Or in summary, they could have very many, but it is unlikely they would have anywhere near as many as you.

[originalpckelly]

13. This is the result of our failed Iraq policy...

by weakening the military these communist dogs have decided to take us down. After deeper thought, this is a very dangerous thing we have just learned about. One has to wonder if the Chinese will be willing to attack our civilian spacecraft as well. Our GPS satellites could be at risk, and without them our new modern military is basically shit. Our communications satellites would also be at risk. GOD THIS IS NOT GOOD!

[Selatius]

10. There's really nothing that can be done; China owns the US in many ways

We gave them our factories for cheaper products, but what is cheap? The cost of living continues to rise anyway, but at least the corporations got bigger profit margins now. :sarcasm:

[BlooInBloo]

12. Looks like bullshit to me....

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&ncl=http://www.americanthinker.com/comments.php%3Fcomments_id%3D6247

Those are the only sources google news has, and they don't fill me with confidence.

On the other hand, I'm SURE all the folks here would do due diligence, and not just believe & report everything they read uncritically, so that means you all must have more knowledge of what sources are trustworthy than I do.

So I'll accept your educated responsible word for it - and start screaming like a melodramatic maniac at the Chinese lasering us.

[originalpckelly]

15. I think it is all too plausible and matches up China's espionage...

and recent military build-up. This is what happens when you play nice with people who have enslaved millions of individuals. Definitely not good.

[BlooInBloo]

18. You're a genius. That's the best evidence I've EVER heard. EVER.

"I think it is all too plausible"

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Random_Australian]

22. Plausible does not equal real.

And lasers like this really would be something!

[originalpckelly]

16. Of course the other story is that we never learned of this agression...

because that little piece of at 1600 penn. ave. would piss off all the pukes who like a strong defense.

[papau]

17. W/O drop shipping from Chinese factories Ebay closes down & all the jobs

selling on Ebay (new sales persons estimated as 400,000 jobs) created under Bush from the folks laid off under Bush will disappear.

There is no way Bush will respond to Chinese actions with more than silence - he has already "cut and run" - indeed try to think of even one Bush foreign policy success ????

[Justice Is Comin]

19. China has been cleaning our clock

since the day bush slithered into office, in every way there is.

If they ever call in our foreign debt alone or sell it, we're hamburger.