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According to a report in the military affairs publication Defense News, China has conducted tests involving high-powered ground-based lasers, firing them at U.S. spy satellites flying over its territory.
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In the 2006 edition of its annual report to Congress, "Military Power of the People's Republic of China," the Pentagon notes that "Beijing continues to pursue an offensive anti-satellite system." At least one of the satellite attack systems, it says, "appears to be a ground-based laser designed to damage or blind imaging satellites."
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Maybe the next spy satellite should have a nuke onboard that explodes it its sensors are blinded. Serve the Chinese right, I think, for damaging our property.
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