“If your opponent is of choleric temper,” you quote Sun Tzu in connection with the Chinese shooting of its own weather satellite, “seek to irritate him” (“Stormy Weather,” January 27, 2007). How astute of the strategist who penned these words two and a half millennia ago. And the opponent is choleric to boot, as one would expect from the biggest bully of them all—America. Which is why you can expect many people around the globe to cheer the Chinese experiment, execrable as it was. As for the American complaint that China has littered space with debris, thereby putting spacecraft at risk, space has long been a veritable junkyard. An American one, too.