Star Wars: China-U.S. rivalry now extends to space

November 19, 2011 – BEIJING – A U.S. government report warns of China’s attempt to cripple U.S. space defenses. The report says two U.S. satellites were hacked in 2007 and 2008- attacks resemble those described in Chinese military literature. China appears to be taking its cyber-skirmishes with the U.S. to a new level. A recent government report reveals that attackers gained access to two U.S. satellites. Meanwhile, China — the suspected culprit — has internally revealed that it’s developing capabilities to cripple an enemy satellite network via either outright destruction or planted misinformation. A U.S. Defense Department report warns: A high level of access could reveal the satellite’s capabilities or information, such as imagery, gained through its sensors. Opportunities may also exist to reconnoiter or compromise other terrestrial or space- based networks used by the satellite. The report points to China preparing a two pronged approach to attack the U.S.’s space capabilities. The first approach is to use traditional attacks like missiles or orbiters to physically assault enemy satellites (the so-called “hard” attack). A second “soft” attack approach involves instead using cyber attacks to cripple or interfere with foreign satellites. –Daily Tech

In 2007, Boston.com reported: The Chinese military used a ground-based missile to hit and destroy one of its aging satellites orbiting more than 500 miles in space last week — a high-stakes test demonstrating China’s ability to target regions of space that are home to US spy satellites and space-based missile defense systems. The test of anti satellite technology is believed to be the first of its kind in two decades by any nation and raised concerns about the vulnerability of US satellites and a possible arms race in space.–Boston http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2007/01/19/china_shoots_down_satellite_drawing_protests_worldwide/

Obama and Asian Leaders Confront China’s Premier
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/world/asia/wen-jiabao-chinese-leader-shows-flexibility-after-meeting-obama.html?ref=world
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — President Obama and nearly all the leaders at an Asian summit directly confronted China on Saturday for its expansive claims to the resource-rich South China Sea, putting the Chinese premier on the defensive in the long-festering dispute, according to Obama administration officials.

Premier Wen Jiabao was by turns “grouchy” and constructive as he responded to the concerns aired by almost all of the leaders attending the East Asia Summit, said one of the administration officials, who spoke to reporters aboard Air Force One as Mr. Obama returned from an eight-day diplomatic swing around the Pacific Rim.

The meeting, at the end of the summit, capped a week during which Mr. Obama moved quickly, and on several fronts, to restore the influence of the United States in the Asia-Pacific region after years of preoccupation in Iraq and Afghanistan. He announced that 2,500 Marines would be stationed in Australia; opened the door to restored ties with Myanmar, a Chinese ally; and gained support for a regional free-trade bloc that so far omits Beijing.

The announcements appeared to startle Chinese leaders, who issued a series of warnings that claimed the United States was seeking to destabilize the region.

Despite the rapid-fire diplomatic challenges, Mr. Obama did make time to speak with Mr. Wen on Saturday morning after the Chinese leader asked if they could meet. And Thomas E. Donilon, the national security adviser, described the meeting as “a good engagement.” A report in Xinhua, the official Chinese government news service, backed up the administration’s suggestion that Mr. Wen had been put in an uncomfortable position by the focus on the South China Sea, especially because the country has long insisted that the issue should not be discussed in multinational forums.

At an Asian regional meeting last year in Hanoi, at which Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton bluntly warned China to curb its aggressiveness in its territorial claims, the Chinese foreign minister walked out enraged, according to officials who were there.

On Saturday, Mr. Wen acknowledged that he did not want to discuss the issue at the summit, but added that it would be “impolite” not to answer the concerns of his country’s neighbors, according to Xinhua. He then defended China’s stance on the sea, according to the news service and an Obama administration official who briefed reporters on the condition of anonymity.

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Carol wrote:Obama and Asian Leaders Confront China’s Premier
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/world/asia/wen-jiabao-chinese-leader-shows-flexibility-after-meeting-obama.html?ref=world
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — President Obama and nearly all the leaders at an Asian summit directly confronted China on Saturday for its expansive claims to the resource-rich South China Sea, putting the Chinese premier on the defensive in the long-festering dispute, according to Obama administration officials.

Premier Wen Jiabao was by turns “grouchy” and constructive as he responded to the concerns aired by almost all of the leaders attending the East Asia Summit, said one of the administration officials, who spoke to reporters aboard Air Force One as Mr. Obama returned from an eight-day diplomatic swing around the Pacific Rim.

The meeting, at the end of the summit, capped a week during which Mr. Obama moved quickly, and on several fronts, to restore the influence of the United States in the Asia-Pacific region after years of preoccupation in Iraq and Afghanistan. He announced that 2,500 Marines would be stationed in Australia; opened the door to restored ties with Myanmar, a Chinese ally; and gained support for a regional free-trade bloc that so far omits Beijing.

The announcements appeared to startle Chinese leaders, who issued a series of warnings that claimed the United States was seeking to destabilize the region.

Despite the rapid-fire diplomatic challenges, Mr. Obama did make time to speak with Mr. Wen on Saturday morning after the Chinese leader asked if they could meet. And Thomas E. Donilon, the national security adviser, described the meeting as “a good engagement.” A report in Xinhua, the official Chinese government news service, backed up the administration’s suggestion that Mr. Wen had been put in an uncomfortable position by the focus on the South China Sea, especially because the country has long insisted that the issue should not be discussed in multinational forums.

At an Asian regional meeting last year in Hanoi, at which Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton bluntly warned China to curb its aggressiveness in its territorial claims, the Chinese foreign minister walked out enraged, according to officials who were there.

On Saturday, Mr. Wen acknowledged that he did not want to discuss the issue at the summit, but added that it would be “impolite” not to answer the concerns of his country’s neighbors, according to Xinhua. He then defended China’s stance on the sea, according to the news service and an Obama administration official who briefed reporters on the condition of anonymity.

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Usual hypocrisy of the US administation . Make it appear that other countries are doing something wrong . But there light on the horizon , the US is bankrupt and soon it will not be able to pretend to be the number one military power .
One day the USA will make a mistake and then it will be the end of the NWO . i am looking froward to it .

Good luck with that thought ENWO. The US is filthy rich with billions worth of untapped oil. What we are seeing is just another illusion provided by the oligarchy, banksters and others to distract from their other underhanded plots of global domination. Obama is CIA, make no mistake. He is a plant and 99 percent of the US population was and still are oblivious to the reality that O is not his own person but controlled. First order of the NWO business is to undermine the world economies so that a one world bank can be established with a one world currency. Remember the old saying? "He who controls the purse strings makes the rules and controls the future."

However, people should be paying attention to China as they are the up and coming new power running neck in neck with other world powers. They're all over the globe. China reminds me a bit of England when it was out for world domination years and years ago.

Think back to the elder George Bush and what he did with China.

Then there is this quote:

"Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world." by Henry Kissinger