>The cost of a target is immaterial to the cost of weapon. With thinking like this, this is how one looses in the game of attrition warfare (setting aside the

>The cost of a target is immaterial to the cost of weapon. With thinking like this, this is how one looses in the game of attrition warfare (setting aside the technical difficulties shooting down satellites that are trying to active evade such, rather than some boisterous demo on one that isn't). If the Chinese can't maintain "social cohesion" at a cheap of enough cost, it would be only be ruinous in the long run. "There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare" - Sun Tzu >Alternatively, they could insist that all ground control stations be based in China, with Chinese "partner" firms before the service gets off the ground Well this certainly sounds like a cheaper alternative that seems way more sustainable and wont be as burdensome on the resources of a population. However, any ground station that has LOS into china from outside its borders) and powered high enough would evade such, then we're talking about the cat and mouse game of trying to impede beam paths. Maybe they'd have to purse something on the device level via the manufactures to block such things.