[People News] No one denies that “Starlink,” launched by Elon Musk, founder and chairman of U.S. company SpaceX, is a groundbreaking innovation aimed at providing high-speed, low-latency global internet coverage. By building a massive three-layer satellite network, it solves connectivity problems in remote areas, oceans, deserts, and during navigation, allowing users to enjoy internet speeds similar to traditional broadband.

Beyond that, Starlink can also be used on the battlefield for long-term observation of targets. It can transmit real-time, high-precision images directly to command centers and even enable real-time control of missiles until they complete precise strikes. In other words, missiles relying on Starlink satellites can be significantly cheaper. For these reasons, the U.S. military has become Starlink’s number-one user.

During the Russia–Ukraine war, Musk activated Starlink services over Ukraine at Kyiv’s request, largely thwarting Russia’s attempts to cut Ukraine off from the outside world.

However, during nationwide protests in Iran that continued from the end of last year into mid-January, although Musk made Starlink internet available free of charge to Iranian protesters, reports said Iranian authorities carried out large-scale signal interference against Starlink. As a result, not all regions had stable signals. In addition, Starlink equipment was difficult to obtain, so only a very small number of people were able to connect with the outside world and transmit images.

What methods did the Iranian authorities use to carry out such large-scale interference with Starlink? Iran clearly does not possess this kind of technology on its own. Suspicion fell on the Chinese Communist regime, another authoritarian government that has long supported Iran.

At a low-profile defense technology exhibition on the Chinese mainland in early 2026, a state-backed Chinese defense conglomerate, China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC), publicly displayed a new type of electronic warfare device—a portable system specifically designed to detect and interfere with Starlink user terminals—providing an answer.

This device is reportedly compact enough to be carried and operated by a single soldier and is said to be capable of accurately locating and cutting off communication links between Starlink terminals and satellites. The Chinese Communist regime is believed to have deployed it in Iran for testing, where its effectiveness was verified. Russia’s military is also said to have deployed specialized systems such as “Kalinka” in recent years, which U.S. media have assessed as capable of effectively detecting and disrupting Starlink communications.

Public information suggests that the working principle of CETC’s portable jamming device most likely involves precisely suppressing the fixed operating frequency bands of Starlink terminals (such as the Ku and Ka bands). Without question, only an evil regime that blocks the internet—like the CCP—would devote energy to developing such anti-human technology.

CETC was established in February 2002 based on research institutes and enterprises directly under China’s Ministry of Information Industry and is a central state-owned enterprise under the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission. CETC’s products cover the entire industrial chain, from advanced radar and integrated electronic countermeasure systems to core components. Its products are clearly developed for the CCP to counter Western countries.

The fundamental reason CETC developed this portable system to interfere with Starlink user terminals is that the Starlink program poses a potentially huge threat to the CCP. As is well known, the CCP is one of the few regimes in the world that imposes comprehensive internet censorship. The “Golden Shield Project,” overseen by Jiang Mianheng, the son of Jiang Zemin, commonly known as the “Great Firewall,” along with its later expansion into the broader “Safe Cities” comprehensive stability-maintenance surveillance system, has for more than a decade continuously strengthened surveillance of Chinese citizens and internet blockades, preventing many Chinese people from accessing truthful information beyond the firewall.

If one day Musk were to announce that Starlink would be opened to Chinese people currently cut off by censorship, the blow to the CCP would be unimaginable—its firewall would become virtually useless. How could the authorities in Beijing not be worried? And how could a regime already on shaky ground allow the public to learn the truth?

Therefore, the CCP’s invention of a portable system to interfere with Starlink is, in essence, rooted in fear—fear of the people learning the truth and fear of losing power. It once again proves that its evil is not ordinary. No wonder many Chinese netizens have mocked it, saying things like: “They’re afraid you’ll know too much,” “This is just to seal off their own people—why would the U.S. care?” “Some develop technology, others develop isolation technology,” “They’re deliberately opposing civilization,” and “Truly shameless—are these even things humans do?” “Evil in every way, doing all the bad things possible.”

A regime that treats its own people as enemies and does nothing but harm truly has no reason to continue existing.

(First published by People’s Report)