China threatens to destroy Starlink satellites for the sake of "nationals". Security"

China is openly discussing ways to destroy thousands of Starlink satellites, the brainchild of Elon Musk, which aims to

is to provide high-speed Internet access to any, even the most inaccessible point in the world.No, this is not an April Fool's joke, but the very real statements of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and its military researchers, set out in a voluminous article "Starlink Development Status and Countermeasures".And the thing is that low-cost satellite Internet from low-orbit Starlink satellites canpose a threat to China's ideological security is one of the main concernsThe Communist Party of China.Recall that the country is quite isolated from thethe outside world, the Internet, which, however, is easily managed by ordinary users with the help of a VPN.

China itself presents this under the guise of a military threat: "Although Starlink claims that it is a civilian program that provides high-speed Internet services, it hasWithout going into details, we can distinguish two options for countermeasures considered by China: hard and soft.The former include the direct destruction of satellites (e.g., by combat missiles).disabling satellites in various ways: disruption of radio communication or remote burning of the electronic stuffing of Starlink, blinding of satellites with powerful lasers, as well as direct hacking of satellite networks.

Typical Starlink Receiving Dish

We can only hope, further these theorieswork will not work. By the way, China itself intends to directly compete with Starlink, creating its analogue under the name Xing Wang (Starnet). An English translation of the original article is available here.

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