The Chinese need to put everything they want in 1 hand and shit in the other hand, then see which hand fills up quicker.  Space lasers are the perennial inside joke defense contractors tell one another and to Congressmen on the take, whenever budget talks get tight. They are like the, "sharks with freaking lasers on their heads" of the lobbying world. Everyone knows it would never work and it is almost always cover talk for black budget shit, but shit that isn't going to send the world into defcon 1 like actual directed energy weapons in space- which violate Treaties.  China is fucking stupid and has actually deployed space  based directed energy weapons. No wonder their so called space station is crashing.  Space based particle accelerators are no fucking joke and would fuck shit up in space or on the ground- which is why one reason they were banned in the Cold War. Seriously,  stop and think about what it means that we banned some types of weapons in the fucking Cold War, and now China is telling the world they have that shit up there in not so many words.  Holy fuck!