China Lasers Hawaii, Prepares for War
by Gordon G. Chang • February 17, 2023 at 5:00 am
This [spy balloon's eight-day flight] path certainly suggests China is gathering intelligence for either a first or second strike on America's nukes.
Combined with the green lasers collecting atmospheric data useful for a strike by a hypersonic glide vehicle on Hawaii, American defense planners should be alarmed.
The real story is that the Pentagon was caught off-guard by the recent intrusions. Only after the Chinese spy balloon penetrated U.S. airspace did the Pentagon go back over previously collected radar data and realize that there had been intrusions in previous years.
Deterrence is being eroded as China's Communist Party is fast mobilizing all society for war.
[T]he laser shower is another warning that war is on the way.
On January 28, the Subaru-Asahi Star Camera, which livestreams images from the Subaru Telescope on Hawaii's Mauna Kea, caught images of a shower of green laser beams lasting just seconds.
The beams were not, as originally thought, from a NASA satellite. They could have come from only one source: China's Daqi-1/AEMS satellite.
Why was China lasering a dormant volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii?
"It's a Chinese satellite that is measuring pollutants, among other things," said Roy Gal of the University of Hawaii Institute of Astronomy to The Hill.
"I'm not sure, and this is my opinion, why the Chinese—who are probably some of the most prolific polluters on the planet—would be collecting data on pollutants on this side of the Pacific," Ray L'Heureux, a former chief of staff of Marine Forces Pacific told the same publication.
