China has filed papers for its own constellation of almost 13,000 satellites. China is also worried that low Earth orbit and this domain of space is yet another arena in which America is trying to establish a dominant presence. This isn't necessarily just about China and America in Taiwan. It's about China and American in space in this low Earth orbit race.
The country’s homophobes claim that homosexuality is a malign foreign import; in reality it was anti-LGBT groups from abroad who helped lay the ground for vicious new legislation. Starlink, a satellite-internet constellation, has given Ukraine a battlefield advantage; we ask why that has China’s army so concerned. And the unlikely resurgence of pinball, thanks to some canny marketing.
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