China’s War On Starlink: From Laser Attacks To Supply-Chain Sabotage, PLA Scientists Work To Wreck Starlink

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Nitin J Ticku

 

Chinese military scientists are relentlessly working on a new project — how to neutralize the Starlink advantage of its adversaries in the case of a war.

And, Beijing is debating everything from stealth submarines fitted with space-shooting lasers, supply-chain sabotage, custom-built attack satellites to kill Starlink satellites, to diplomacy and co-opting Elon Musk, the influential owner of Starlink and recent friend-turned-foe of US President Donald Trump.

In fact, Chinese scientists and researchers have published not one or two but dozens of papers in peer-reviewed journals debating the most efficient way of killing the thousands of Starlink satellites in the Low-Earth-Orbit (LEO).

Worried that these satellites could be used against China, for reconnaissance purposes during peacetime, and for targeting Chinese assets during a war situation, Chinese researchers have been discussing ways to counter this threat.

Notably, China is working on two parallel tracks simultaneously. On the one hand, Beijing is actively developing capabilities that can destroy and neutralize Starlink satellites within minutes; at the same time, Beijing is also developing its own LEO satellite system, the Qianfan mega-constellation project, also known as G60