Our SLBM subs in the Western Pacific can hit any Chinese city within minutes, and if they ever get round to it, the Chinese could equally deploy missile subs off both coasts of the continental US. Nuclear subs are way cheaper to maintain and far less vulnerable to attack. Space stations are sitting ducks.
Our SLBM subs in the Western Pacific can hit any Chinese city within minutes...
I'm sure you're right, Zhang Fei, unless, of course, communist China puts anti-missile weapons in space.
“Space stations are sitting ducks”
No, not really. We can barely knock a satellite out of orbit. An armed, manned space station, with counter measures, will be way beyond our capabilities. NASA has been gutted and can barely get a satellite in orbit. We depend on Russians to get crew to the ISS and I expect the ISS to be abandoned, at least by the US, in the not too distant future.
As for our subs, the Chinese can afford to lose several hundred million people and are willing to. We can’t and won’t risk doing so. China puts up an armed space station and we will meekly do whatever they say.