US suffers from paranoia

There is a brain illness called paranoia. Patients suffering from it live in their own spiritual world and are obsessed by mistaken beliefs.

The United States is a severely paranoid patient who has all the classic symptoms of the illness.

U.S. space experts claimed that China may conduct another anti-satellite (ASAT) test on Jan. 11, the date on which it performed ASAT operations in both 2007 and 2010. The rumor has been circulating in the U.S. Department of Defense and intelligence community over the past few months. They are worried that such tests could pose a threat to U.S. Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites.

China does not need to report to the United States whether or when it will conduct such tests. As a modern sovereign country, it disallows any outside intervention in its internal affairs. It is known to all that the United States owns the most advanced space technology in the world. Has any other country ever asked it to stop developing various threatening weapons?

Maybe the United States has been acting sick so as to get away with telling lies.

In August 1964, then U.S. President Lyndon Johnson claimed that the North Vietnamese Navy attacked U.S. warships in the Gulf of Tonkin, and then escalated U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara admitted many years later that the attack did not happen, and it was totally faked.

In March 2003, then U.S. President George W. Bush claimed that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, and used it as an excuse to launch the Iraq War. Bush acknowledged in his memoirs many years later that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction.

The United States has also accused Iran of developing nuclear weapons when it is just conducting peaceful use of nuclear energy, and created rumors that the Syrian government plans to use chemical weapons in the Syrian civil war.

The United States can judge whether other countries are threatening its security according to historical incidents, and other countries can tell whether it is telling lies according to its previous misdeeds.

The United States now takes China as its imaginary enemy. As the world's second largest economy, China is bound to be considered by the United States as a major threat. Hegemonic powers have achieved their hegemonic status through bloody wars.

In the guise of a paranoid patient, the United States is actually anxious to maintain absolute dominance in all fields as well as its long-term hegemonic position in the world.

China values honesty, and has repeatedly expressed its determination to safeguard world peace. It should be reiterated that China has the right to peaceful use of outer space, and will never give up this right. Any action obstructing or undermining China's space exploration will be hit back hard. The United States is policing the world, but is still far from being able to police the universe.