Can China Shoot Down Starlink?

This video image provided by SpaceX, a SpaceX Falcon 9 mission to launch 53 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E), takes off from Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., on May 13, 2022. SpaceX via AP

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Chinese military media is increasingly highlighting the threat to China from Elon Musk’s growing constellation of broadband (Wi-Fi) satellites called Starlink, with one Chinese military journal calling for China to have the capability to shoot them down.