Chinese military researchers are advocating that Elon Musk’s Starlink satelites be destroyed. "[A] combination of soft and hard kill methods should be adopted to make some Starlink satellites lose their functions and destroy the constellation's operating system." This is according to five senior scientists in China's defence industry, led by Ren Yuanzhen, a researcher with the Beijing Institute of Tracking and Telecommunications, under the People Liberation Army's (PLA's) Strategic Support Force: Stephen Chen, South China Morning Post, May 25,2022. Two methods will be used, targeting software, or simply shooting the satellites down. The claim is that the satellites could be used for military purposes, but the real goal is to eliminate competition as China seeks a monopoly of space, and for its own military purposes.
I am getting pretty tired of this sabre-rattling, as I believe most of Asia, especially Japan now is.