Comments on: China proposes building two new satellite constellations, each with about 100,000 satellites https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/china-proposes-building-two-new-satellite-constellations-each-with-about-100000-satellites/ Fri, 16 Jan 2026 08:02:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Blair K Ivey https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/china-proposes-building-two-new-satellite-constellations-each-with-about-100000-satellites/#comment-1627593 Fri, 16 Jan 2026 08:02:36 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=120666#comment-1627593 To Craken’s observations:

The Chinese appear to be expansionists of convenience; others are expansionists of purpose. “We want more” v “Well, if it’s nearby”.

]]> By: Jeff Wright https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/china-proposes-building-two-new-satellite-constellations-each-with-about-100000-satellites/#comment-1627484 Wed, 14 Jan 2026 01:51:24 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=120666#comment-1627484 That took less time than I thought.

In Birmingham, a company I used to work at had a contract with the city.

They didn’t get paid either.

I wish I could leave.

]]> By: pzatchok https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/china-proposes-building-two-new-satellite-constellations-each-with-about-100000-satellites/#comment-1627478 Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:02:48 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=120666#comment-1627478 Africa not China.

]]> By: pzatchok https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/china-proposes-building-two-new-satellite-constellations-each-with-about-100000-satellites/#comment-1627464 Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:11:50 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=120666#comment-1627464 The Chinese Belt and Road initiative has failed Africa.

The projects have not panned out, the construction is actually falling apart., China is not finishing the other projects Now they are being kicked out of China and the loans they gave out to pay for them are not being paid back.

China is a failing state.

]]> By: Craken https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/china-proposes-building-two-new-satellite-constellations-each-with-about-100000-satellites/#comment-1627463 Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:50:26 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=120666#comment-1627463 Blair K. Ivey observed: “For millennia, the Chinese confined their control to the Middle Kingdom, without a seeming care for anywhere else.”
Their definition of the territory rightfully belonging to the Middle Kingdom expanded time and again for many centuries, suggesting they had a care for adjacent lands repeatedly. These days they seem to have an interest in Taiwan (controlled by China for only 200 years of China’s several millennia history) and a large part of the Pacific Ocean. Maybe it will be Kazakhstan next, or Siberia.

]]> By: A. Nonymous https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/china-proposes-building-two-new-satellite-constellations-each-with-about-100000-satellites/#comment-1627449 Tue, 13 Jan 2026 04:32:22 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=120666#comment-1627449 Don’t forget that any packets sent over a CCP network will be copied and stored on CCP servers for use by the Party and its organs.

]]> By: Blair K Ivey https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/china-proposes-building-two-new-satellite-constellations-each-with-about-100000-satellites/#comment-1627448 Tue, 13 Jan 2026 04:20:11 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=120666#comment-1627448 BillB observed: “The “Celestials” as the Han Chinese consider themselves believe they should rule the Earth. ”

For millennia, the Chinese confined their control to the Middle Kingdom, without a seeming care for anywhere else. Indeed, they built a Wall to keep waiguoren out. Europeans and other Asians have long experience expanding, and resisting others doing the same. It was the West that came to China, not the other way around. It looks like a contest between the imperturbable Chinese, and the dynamic West. I’ve already placed my bets.

]]> By: Jeff Wright https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/china-proposes-building-two-new-satellite-constellations-each-with-about-100000-satellites/#comment-1627445 Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:12:47 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=120666#comment-1627445 All part of the “Long View.”

Fill space—offer free service—bankrupt Starlink—control Earth’s data.

It’s what I would do.

Dr. Doom approves.

In Africa, poor people are tired of rich white Western Greens. China won’t kill poachers (they love rhino horns too.)

So since Green tyrants won’t help development, China has Africa over the rail.

All due to folks wearing a white hat.

]]> By: Robert Zimmerman https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/china-proposes-building-two-new-satellite-constellations-each-with-about-100000-satellites/#comment-1627441 Mon, 12 Jan 2026 19:22:06 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=120666#comment-1627441 In reply to David Eastman.

David Eastman: I think I stated that purpose in my post: “Both filings appear to be very preliminary, and in fact appear to be an attempt by China to grab control of as much orbital territory and satellite spectrum as possible, to block others from access.”

]]> By: David Eastman https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/china-proposes-building-two-new-satellite-constellations-each-with-about-100000-satellites/#comment-1627440 Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:47:39 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=120666#comment-1627440 What conceivable purpose is there for two constellations that size?

]]> By: BillB https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/china-proposes-building-two-new-satellite-constellations-each-with-about-100000-satellites/#comment-1627439 Mon, 12 Jan 2026 17:47:05 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=120666#comment-1627439 The “Celestials” as the Han Chinese consider themselves believe they should rule the Earth. This is another attempt to control territory that should not be theirs like they are trying to control the whole of the South China Sea from Vietnam to the Philippines.

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