Welcome to the arms race for the 21st century -- space!

[thewayne]

The Chinese apparently have successfully destroyed one of their aging weather satellites with a kinetic kill at an altitude of 500 miles.

Let the space wars begin!

http://www.aviationweek.com/avnow/news/channel_awst_story.jsp?id=news/CHI01177.xml

Comments

[silveradept]

From what I hear, China is one of the biggest financiers of our debt. If they should suddenly decide to call in some loans, they could put some significant pressure on the U.S. to shape up or change policy.

As for not using the Army, that would be a smart thing to do, considering they'd be outnumbered significantly. As you mentioned below, though, we don't exactly have a rational government in place.