[Epoch Times December 30, 2021]On December 28, the Chinese Communist Party used the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to hype a note submitted to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on December 3. This rare note complained that the Starlink satellites launched by the American company SpaceX had dangerously approached the Chinese space station on July 1 and October 21, causing Chinese personnel to take “emergency avoidance measures” for safety reasons. This has aroused public attention. What is the intention of the Chinese Communist Party’s hype? This article thinks that there are three.
First, create topics, confuse the audience, and try to gain the dominance of public opinion.
Analyze the “Two Dangerous Approaches to the Chinese Space Station” published on the website of the Chinese Communist Party’s official media “Global Times”, what exactly do US satellites want to do? “This article clearly shows that it deliberately misleads readers.
First, on July 1, the Starlink-1095 satellite approached the China Space Station. The article itself said that “it can barely be explained by the failure of the automatic avoidance function of the retired satellite”. Why use the word “reluctantly”? It is because the facts and evidence obtained in this article cannot prove that the Starlink-1095 satellite is deliberately dangerously approaching the Chinese space station. The article intends to plant a fraud but needs to be impartial, so I have to use the word “reluctantly” unwillingly. Moreover, the article avoided one thing: On December 27th, astronomer Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics said on Twitter, During the close contact on July 1, the Starlink-1095 satellite may have also conducted a “minimal collision avoidance”, but it seems that China “does not know or trust the Starlink satellites to avoid collision.”
Second, on October 21, the Starlink-2305 satellite approached the Chinese Space Station in close proximity. The article reads: “It is worth noting that the Starlink-2305 satellite has returned to a normal orbit height of about 555 kilometers. Why did this satellite suddenly lower its orbit by about 100 kilometers? Some space experts believe that the purpose of this move is It may be to enhance the communication performance of the satellite constellation in local areas. In Spacex’s plan, the company is also preparing to deploy a large number of satellites in an orbit of about 330 kilometers. “The words have been said very clearly; however, the article again Qiang wrote this paragraph: “But there is another possibility that the US can use this to detect China’s space perception capabilities and test whether China can accurately grasp their actions.” But he did not produce any evidence. This is a malicious speculation, but the writing induces readers to think like this.
In addition, the article was upside-down and did not mention SpaceX and the United States‘ views (Western media reported that “related complaints have not been independently certified”). Therefore, according to international news norms, this article in the “Global Times” is largely a piece of “fake news” (this is probably the case for such articles by Lu Media). This is the CCP’s habit of “information warfare”.
The boss of SpaceX is Musk. When the Sino-US trade war was fierce, Musk invested heavily in Shanghai in 2018 to build a Tesla super factory to produce electric cars. In 2021, the Shanghai Super Factory is positioned as the company’s main automobile export center-in addition to the delivery of the Chinese market, it also exports a large number of Model 3, Model Y to Asia-Pacific, Europe and other places. Currently, 1.2 billion RMB is being invested in the second-stage production line optimization project of the Shanghai Super Factory (Phase I), which will be completed in April next year.
The United States and China are already Tesla’s largest markets. As of August, Tesla’s sales in China’s domestic market in 2021 have reached 152,531 vehicles, exceeding the overall sales of last year.
At the beginning, the CCP had multiple considerations for the introduction of Tesla, and it was a major motive to tie up Musk. why? It’s SpaceX who is eyeing Musk. SpaceX is too important in the eyes of the Chinese Communist Party. On the one hand, SpaceX’s Starlink project allows people from all over the world to surf the Internet freely. The largest network firewall in the world built by the CCP may be disintegrated in no time. The CCP has to “talk” to Musk on this; on the other hand, SpaceX technology Advanced, low-cost, and closely related to the US military. The CCP wants to get something from it (using various methods), but also wants to hold back Musk.
Therefore, to tie Musk and beat Musk are two sides of the CCP. In 2021, the CCP has begun to beat Tesla. For example, on February 9th, the 5 departments of the CCP interviewed Tesla, and Tesla was named at the “March 15” Consumer Rights Protection Day Gala of CCTV. On April 19, a women’s congress The car show accused Tesla of “brake failure”, the official media besieged Tesla, Tesla was barred from entering some Chinese government compound, and so on.
Now, using Starlink satellites to approach the Chinese space station twice, a new round of beating has begun. The aforementioned “Global Times” article alleges: “Therefore, SpaceX, at the request of the Pentagon, uses dangerous proximity to the Chinese Space Station to test China’s space perception capabilities. It is not impossible.” The purpose behind this kind of inducement is really difficult to conceal. The CCP’s naval forces also used this to build momentum, calling these satellites “a space war weapon of the United States.” He also accused Musk of “creating a pile of space junk”, “it is the white glove of the US military”; even called for the refusal to buy Tesla electric vehicles, on the grounds that “refuse to send space war funds for Tesla.”
Third, build momentum for the CCP’s struggle for space supremacy.
Today, space technology has widely entered the homes of everyday people. Almost all basic services and economic operations in our lives now cannot do without satellites. From an economic, technological, and military perspective, “the one who gains space gains the world.” The CCP regards the struggle for space supremacy as a priority of its grand strategy.
Although, in general, the CCP’s space technology is decades behind the United States, but the CCP’s “curving overtaking” type of chasing that does not cost money has also put a lot of pressure on the United States. On December 4, at the Reagan National Defense Forum, David Thompson, deputy director of the U.S. Space Force’s Space Operations, stated that the U.S. Space Force is responding to “reversible attacks” by China and Russia on U.S. satellites every day. He said, “In fact, in essence, on average, they are building, deploying, and updating their space capabilities twice as fast as ours, which means that soon, if we don’t start accelerating our development and They will surpass our ability to deliver.” (Of course, since the Trump administration has begun to counter the challenges of the CCP, such as forming a “space army”, re-planning the space strategy and so on. December 1, 2021, the Biden administration Announcing a new strategy for the use of space in response to competition from the Chinese Communist Party and Russia. Vice President Harris plans to convene the first meeting of the National Space Commission, asking government agencies to “accelerate, expand, and develop rules and guidelines for responsible behavior in space.”)
The CCP’s hype about the US satellite’s collision with China’s space station this time is just arguing for its space dominance.
In fact, the current space junk poses the greatest threat to space stations (including the CCP’s space station), but the CCP has not talked about it; so far, there is no effective international solution to track and coordinate the movement of objects in space, and space may evolve into At a crossroads with no traffic lights, the CCP also kept silent about it; on November 5, Russia launched an anti-satellite missile to destroy an electronic reconnaissance satellite that has been scrapped (the United States claims that this has produced more than 1,500 pieces of space that can be tracked). Debris, and hundreds of thousands of smaller pieces of space debris), the CCP did not talk about it. In early May, the CCP’s Long March 5B rocket that launched the space station “fell out of control” due to a design problem, causing widespread concern around the world, and the CCP did not say anything about it. talk.
To the contrary, the CCP’s intentions are also outrageous when it comes to talking about the US satellite’s two close collisions with the Chinese space station!
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