The anti-ICBM test is supposed to be scarier than the ASAT test.
I think they are trying to do the damage control. How can China become better than the US in this area?
anti-ICBM missiles will not work on any of the major nuclear players. Anti-ICBM missiles are targeted at small players like North Korea and Iran.
how can you stop thousands of missiles of different types??? are you going to build tens of thousands of anti-ICBM missiles???
U.S has what 14 Ohio Class subs with 24 Trident II missile each so that's 336 ICBMS and each one can carry 14 warheads (doesn't carry that many because of START treaties) and with penetration aids.
then we got 450 Minutemen III ICBMS that carry 3 MIRV warheads and penetration aides
then we got hundreds of B-52,B-1,B-2 bombers that each can carry a dozen or so air launched cruise missiles with a nuclear warhead
then the rest of our jet's like the F-15,F16,F-18,F-22, and F-35 can drop B-61 and B-83 nuclear bombs.
it's impossible to stop such a combination and number of nuclear weapons.
ASAT isn't good. least you want to have proliferation of such weapons and destroy our chances of exploring space and sending us back to the the 1800's.
China is acting like a child.