[Fitzcarraldo]

China could go for the shotgun effect and just send up exploding rockets full of ball bearings in proximity to target satellites. I think their attitude would be denial of space to everyone, including themselves if it came to world conflict.

Blind spy satellites and GPS in low earth orbit, much mischief they can do.

[muawiyah]

We'll simply have to arm our satellites.

Ultimately any country that wants to get into the business of launching satellites, traveling to outerspace, or even sending some low altitude ICBMs to their enemies is going to have to learn how to dispose of debris in the way, or simply give it up.