China Lasers Hawaii, Prepares for War

Gordan Chang is an expert on China. Author of The Great U.S.-China Tech War and Losing South Korea  and The Coming Collapse of China, Chang warns of the coming war..

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.

Richard Fisher of the Virginia-based International Assessment and Strategy Center can think of a few reasons why Chinese scientists want to know about the atmosphere over Hawaii.

“China’s Daqi-1 satellite, a perfect example of the dual-use nature of China’s space program, utilizes a green laser for environmental or greenhouse gas research, but that data, which provides information about atmospheric density and heavy weather, could also be used to target China’s new hypersonic glide vehicle,” he told Gatestone. “HGVs, as these weapons platforms are called, require precise weather measurements to deliver warheads precisely on target.”

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