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Chinese Rocket Breaks Up Over Lone Star State as Tensions Soar

China, just days ago, threatened the US with ‘conflict’.

In terms of international nervousness goes, the last several months have been some of the most extreme in recent memory.  The global community feels as though it’s being shoved ever close to the precipice of some dramatic peril that will forever reshape humanity once again.

A large piece of this puzzle comes to us from the far east, where China’s attempts to monopolize international culture to their liking is becoming unnerving in its arrogance.  Beijing, for what it’s worth, refuses to concede that the CCP has ever once done anything even remotely resembling “wrong”, and so now it’s up to the world to decide how much leeway to give China in the face of a global nuclear conflict.

And, as if this weren’t enough to worry about in and of itself, we have news out of Texas this week that a Chinese rocket has broken up in the skies over the Lone Star State.

The second stage of a Chinese rocket that delivered a trio of military surveillance satellites to space in June disintegrated over Texas on Wednesday, USNI News has learned.

The four-ton component of a Chang Zheng 2D ‘Long March’ rocket punched through the atmosphere on Wednesday over Texas at 17,000 miles per hour and disintegrated, two defense officials confirmed to USNI News on Thursday.

U.S. military officials have yet to find any debris from the rocket stage, however, USNI News understands the debris field could be miles wide and several hundred miles long.

The rocket had military origins.

Based on the NORAD tracking data, the stage belonged to a mission that delivered three military electronic signals surveillance satellites that were meant to collect signals data from the South China Sea, astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics told USNI New on Thursday.

The rocket took off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center on June 23 in central China.

The unusual incident comes just weeks after a Chinese spy balloon was downed by US military aircraft off the course of South Carolina, sparking a rash of military encounters with as-of-yet unidentified craft over America.

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