China wants to dance

"... it's not so much that the bloody Chinese decided to make instantly obsolete an aging satellite, although it is of course that as well, but also you see the way they went about it that causes one such discomfort: either it's an intended provocation, possibly aimed at a domestic audience, or they suffer under the demands of an ill advised ambition. Claims that it was a reasonable call to peace are absurd. America's one sure advantage in an increasingly treacherous world is its technology and to think it is just going to surrender that advantage to appease its competitors is either naive or disingenuous. It'd be like asking the prettiest girl at the dance to deliberately scar herself so the more dour looking creatures have fair chance to be rewarded in a way they don't in fact deserve. Only a fool would trust the professed good intentions of the disgruntled, the envious, the disenfranchised."