U.S. official: Chinese test missile obliterates satellite

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Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45

China's leader declined he knew about it though, weird.

Those who view China (and others) as monolith would never appreciate what happens in China. Whereas the central party has trouble confronting corruption in the provinces, also the central party does not always understand what the People's Army is doing.

America had the same problem in early days of the cold war. Gen Curtis LeMay would routinely send American planes into the USSR with one intent: "We are already at war with the Soviets. Americans just don't know it yet". Gen LeMay intentionally wanted to turn the cold war hot - and stated it. It took a strong leader (Kennedy) to finally put a leash on LeMay. The story is legendary.

China most certainly has a same kind of 'big dic'. If China's leadership did not know about this test, then we all have something to fear. However if this test was only to get Americans to grab their scumbag president by his balls and address a world problem; then Chinese leadership only failed to appreciate how nervous that would make the Japanese. The latter is clearly the better alternative. We can only hope and watch.