China's Space Program Thread II

[FriedRiceNSpice]

So you are saying Chinese leaders are wrong in trying to establish a SpaceX-like Starlink system i.e Guowang and spacesail since they are pointless?
You do realise that China is still trying to scale up her rocket and satellite launches capabilities/rate like spaceX so they can meet the launch target for this leo satellite system before the space allocated to them by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), which is necessary to maintain its allocated radio spectrum and orbital slots runs out right? Why will they be putting themselves into so mkch hassle to achieve this if it was useless as you claimed? Lol. If anything the Ukraine war and starlink use as shown how important space and this system can be.

I don't believe he was arguing that such a system is useless: he was merely pointing out the vulnerability of such systems in a direct China-US conflict given the formidable ASAT capabilities of both parties. As for the Ukraine war, Russia has demonstrated that even without resorting to kinetic countermeasures (which carries significant escalation risks), Russia has been able to substantially blunt the effectiveness of Starlink using electronic countermeasures (and Russia's capabilities in terms of jamming and electronic warfare are rather modest in comparison to those of the US and China).