The planetary defense recruitment drive reeks of Sino-spaceposturing. State media’s “collision probability window” rhetoric smells like fearmongering to justify militarizing orbital infrastructure under the guise of asteroid protection.

This sounds like sinophobia. China isn’t “posturing,” and the threat is real (if comparatively small) or else NASA’s DART mission wouldn’t have happened.

State media’s “collision probability window” rhetoric smells like fearmongering to justify militarizing orbital infrastructure under the guise of asteroid protection.

You’re making a lot of assumptions about what their collision deflection method might be, when they don’t even know yet.

Typical authoritarian playbook – manufacture existential threats to centralize power.

🙄 Please send me a link to the “authoritarian playbook.” The Chinese state doesn’t need to centralize its power, because it’s not suffering from a lack of authority. Democratic centralism is working well, and people are happy with it and with their government.

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