Creative Speculation

China certainly has space hawks in high places. In 2009, PLA Air Force chief Xu Qiliang said “competition between military forces” in space is “a historical inevitability.” Qiliang had to retract his statements after then-president Hu Jintao “swiftly contradicted him,” the Pentagon report notes. But far from being punished, Qiliang became the first air force officer promoted to a vice-chairmanship on the Central Military Committee, a body helmed by Xi Jinping himself that serves as a combination of the National Security Council and Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Chinese military doctrine sees counter-space weapons as “central” to what they call “informationalized” warfare, an appalling neologism but an insightful concept that unifies what Americans (at least outside the Navy) still tend to see in separate categories of space, cyber, and electronic warfare. If you want to deny an enemy access to satellite intelligence and communications, after all, there are many ways to skin that cat: shoot down the spy satellite, shoot down the communications satellite relaying its data, jam their transmissions, or hack the whole network. The weapons of such warfare include not just missiles but lasers, jamming, and hacking — the latter an area of significant Chinese successes: http://breakingdefense.com/2015/05/pentagon-reports-on-chinas-satellite-killers/

"Chinese online agents can "call him for a good time!"

On edit, I wasn't talking about anyone in particular "taunting" people; but another member of DU took great pleasure in taunting anyone they thought was weak enough to be hurt by their replies. If their computer still functions, they are able to read the previous remarks. A weapon's platform in orbit can zap a computer hard enough to completely destroy the operating system. BTW, this Vietnam Era Navy veteran hasn't "taunted" a Marine since the 70s, in the Enlisted Men's Club.