AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
Well since the US has technological superiority in space, this artcle is just making a threat to China to stop or else... Or else what? If China didn't show the capability of knocking out satellites, would the US not think twice about destroying Chinese or anyone elses satellites. It's like pollution. Pollution wasn't a big deal when the developed world was behind the vast majority of it. It's only now it's a threat to all of humanity when China literally polluted one spec more of carbon than the reigning champion polluter, the US. The threat shows their cards that despite the technological bravado, it's the Achilles Heel that levels the playing field. China has been calling for a treaty regarding these issues despite what the article argues that everyone else has been ready except China. Oh yeah the transparency excuse so it's all China's fault that they want all access to whatever China is doing yet don't do the same for China the other way around because it's about "national security." So that tells you any treaty is about preventing China from being able to do what they do. This treaty is about stopping China from further developing these technologies. They want to preserve their capablities and the right to use them. They don't want to wait until China has equaled the playing field and then they have to reign in their capabilities to negotiate any sort of treaty. It's llike the land-mine treaty. The US won't sign until they develop an alternate that everyone else doesn't have and then they'll sign. But blame it all on China in the mean time. We just had the Olympics and allegations of cheating. There's no one test for all cheating methods. They can only test for known methods. So when new ways of cheating are developed, they are legally not cheating and only wrong after it has been declared illegal and used. They have to be known and a test developed to detect. And how do they know about the new method? When it's already trickled down to everyone else and then they declare it illegal. Same logic. It only becomes illegal when everyone else has the means of doing it. But unlike space technology, there's no new alterantive to move to so easily. So it ends up they have to openly declare who can do it and who can't and not hiding behind how mutually wrong it is for anyone to do it. Notice how this SALT agreement that China has to initiate doesn't deal with nukes like mentioned. They're not going to touch that as part of the argreement because the US has overwhelming advantage in the number of nukes compared to China.
In a sane world, everyone can do itor no one can do it. What does China have to lose by not intiating this treaty as ordered? Like the whole long list of other complaints have rallied them against China before? And what here alarms them is about technology floating around in space and not lives that are directly threatened. Like China is going to give up something that will eliminate advantges they have and negotiate how more vulnerable China is going to be to them. Sounds like the mentality of the Roman Empire.
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