I found this article when searching for news relating to China and the US. The article certainly leaves me with questions. However what I am most concerned with is why I never heard anything about this in the US. I don't remember any media news directed at this issue. I was wondering if anyone else had heard this story before.
Beijing secretly fires lasers to disable US satellitesBy Francis Harris in Washington
09/27/2006
China has secretly fired powerful laser weapons designed to disable American spy satellites by "blinding" their sensitive surveillance devices, it was reported yesterday.
Thev unreported attacks have been kept secret by the Bush administration for fear that it would damage attempts to co-opt China in diplomatic offensives against North Korea and Iran.
Sources told the military affairs publication Defense News that there had been a fierce internal battle within Washington over whether to make the attacks public. In the end, the Pentagon's annual assessment of the growing Chinese military build-up barely mentioned the threat.
"After a contentious debate, the White House directed the Pentagon to limit its concern to one line," Defense News said.
The document said that China could blind American satellites with a ground-based laser firing a beam of light to prevent spy photography as they pass over China.