Comment by blackeyeblitzar
14 hours ago
> Launch their satellites for them, at 400km. Give them cash or territory. Give away the farm. How doesn't matter.
That sounds not just expensive but unrealistic. I think it’s easier and more politically acceptable to just cripple their launch capabilities with cyberattacks or direct force. It’s not like the world trusts or likes the CCP, or looks favorably upon their aggression against Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tibet, Bhutan, Japan, the Philippines, Vietnam, etc. And this stakes are too high with orbital pollution
It is trivial to retaliate in orbital disputes, and ASAT warfare produces long-lived hazard which cannot be cleaned up. Imagine two rival nuclear plants in nearby cities buying artillery and shelling each other, including with aerially deployed landmines.
Either you get along or you do not get to be a spacefaring civilization.
Please don't commit acts of war. War is bad.
"Please don't hurt the bully in the playground, fighting is bad"
The bully isn't going to learn with this implicit encouragement.