China Demands Info On Shootdown - Spies n Hackers Didn’t Quite Come Through
China wants info? I’m sure their spies and hackers already have more info than Bush does today.
China called on the United States Thursday to provide information about its shooting down of a defunct US spy satellite and voiced caution about the potential international impact of the operation.
“China is continuing to closely follow the possible harm caused by the US action to outer space security and relevant countries,” foreign ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said when asked for a reaction to the shootdown.
“China further requests that the US fulfil its international obligations in earnest and promptly provide to the international community the necessary information and relevant data… so that relevant countries can take precautions.”
A US Navy cruiser hit a defunct US spy satellite with a single missile late Wednesday in a successful interception 133 nautical miles in space over the Pacific, the US Defense Department said.
US officials had earlier insisted the satellite would be shot down to stop it from tumbling to Earth and potentially posing a risk to humans.
But the operation had raised concerns elsewhere that the United States was trying to test an anti-satellite weapon, amid rising global tensions about the militarisation of space.
However the Chinese reaction on Thursday to the incident appeared less confrontational than that on Monday, when Liu said the government was “highly concerned over the developments” and had asked the United States to “ensure that the security of outer space and relevant countries will not be undermined.”
Russia’s defence ministry said on Sunday that the US plans looked like a veiled weapons test and an “attempt to move the arms race into space”.
(AFP)
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“China called on the United States Thursday to provide information about its shooting down of a defunct US spy satellite and voiced caution about the potential international impact of the operation.”
Fuck China…keep guessing about our full capabilities, assholes.
February 21st, 2008 at 8:11 am“Russia’s defence ministry said on Sunday that the US plans looked like a veiled weapons test and an ‘attempt to move the arms race into space’.”
Oh yeah…fuck the Russians too!
February 21st, 2008 at 8:12 amwow who’s going to spy in space ?
February 21st, 2008 at 8:15 amFuck ‘em both…………next time we’ll just keep shut about it and let all you dickhead commies take a wild guess!
February 21st, 2008 at 8:34 amThats bullshit, they shot up a satellite a few months ago and left thousands of pieces of junk in space that could take out other satellites or anything in orbit.
Screw China, they want info we can pack it in another SM-3 and shoot down their spy satellites over the US!!!
And we have NO “international obligations”.
February 21st, 2008 at 8:38 amStar Wars works, in spite of what Democrats say.
Wasn’t Iran warbling about putting a spy satellite up RSN?
February 21st, 2008 at 8:44 amChina Demands Info On Shoot down? Souls are asking for ice water in hell too.
February 21st, 2008 at 9:06 amOK, settle down China, you do the little toys we’ll do the big toys.
February 21st, 2008 at 9:15 amYeah screw China. we owe them nothing! they are constantly stealing our copyrighted material and using our patented items so forget them.
February 21st, 2008 at 9:15 amHydrazine? Were parts made out of metal too? Sometimes these news guys drown in the their own brilliant turds… CHICKEN FRIED STEAK MADE WITH CHICKEN! WHITE WALL IS WHITE! CHINA IS SCARRY!
February 21st, 2008 at 10:37 am
Thank you President Reagan.
February 21st, 2008 at 11:15 amKurt-
We owe China nothing? How about the nearly 1 trillion dollars in debt owed just to their central banking system (excluding other lenders). How about the 330 billion dollars of goods we buy from them every year?
Newsflash- China is a major power and will be a bigger economy than the US in less than 10 years. I say let’s make friends with them.
As to their spying on us- this is nothing new and we still spy on them regularly. Remember that spy plane that they wing-clipped a few years back and that they had to send back to us in pieces? Lets not delude ourselves. US and China need each other perhaps more than any two countries in the world.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,104692,00.html
February 21st, 2008 at 12:39 pm