AS MULLEN SEEKS TO IMPROVE (READ APPEASE) TIES, BEIJING IS RAMPING UP its efforts to project power, developing cutting-edge satellites that can track hostile forces in real time and guide ballistic missiles.

“The most immediate and strategically disquieting application (of reconnaissance satellites) is a targeting and tracking capability in support of the anti-ship ballistic missile, which could hit U.S. carrier groups,” the report said.

And Obama is cutting $700 billion from the military billion…makes sense I suppose when Obama is in negotiations to sell America to Beijing a piece at a time….

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/12/china-satellites-idUSL3E7I902220110712