A group of Chinese scholars proposed to destroy Elon Musk's Starlink

Researchers from the Beijing Institute of Telecommunications Technology say that Statlink is a threat to China's national security because of its "great potential for military applications" .

Starlink is Elon Musk's global connectivity project , made up of thousands of satellites flying in low Earth orbit that connect to ground stations to provide high-speed internet connection services.

Starlink is Elon Musk's global connection project.

In an article published in the journal Modern Defense Technology , a group of five researchers suggested that Starlink could be used by the US military , so they called on China to develop weapons to take down the internet. this internet connection. 'Further development of related technologies and disabling capabilities is needed,' the team wrote.

The research team said that China needs to 'aggressively develop countermeasures' and prepare to 'coordinate the use of soft kill and hard kill technology' against this satellite network.

The article concludes that China needs to deal with the Starlink system to 'maintain and gain an advantage in this fierce space game'.

One advantage of Starlink is ease of deployment, as demonstrated by bringing this technology to Ukraine when the country's traditional mobile network was destroyed during the conflict with Russia.

In March this year, Dmitry Rogozin, the director of Russia's Roscosmos space agency, said that Starlink is no longer a 'purely civilian' technology , after Musk directly responded to the Ukrainian government's Twitter plea about satellite access.

American researchers suggest using Starlink as an alternative to GPS, when this decades-old global positioning system is considered by many countries as a target of attack to weaken the military power of the country. The West.

Analysts say that China can attack Starlink in the event of a conflict in Taiwan (China), where the US can intervene to support the self-governing island.

On May 23, US President Joe Biden vowed to defend Taiwan (China) if Beijing attacked militarily. Mr. Biden said the US had a 'commitment' to defending the island, which China considers a temporary partition.