The US Bombed China With a Space Weapon
Did the U.S. fire a weapon from space at Tianjin, disguising the attack that killed more than 100 people as accidental explosions? Or was it an attempt to assassinate Chinese President President Hu Jintao?
These are just two of the bizarre conspiracy theories circulating online in the wake of the twin blasts which set off a giant fireball and devastated a vast area of the port.
Other theorists claim one of China’s supercomputers – which is used by the country’s military and in space exploration, and is located only a mile away – was the target.
U.S. space weapon
Natural News, a website which describes itself as America’s truth bureau and claims to have more than seven million readers, claims China and America are at war and the explosions were carried out by a Pentagon space weapon.
It claims the attack was an act of ‘kinetic retaliation’ by the Pentagon in response to the devaluation of the Yuan.
The site tells readers that the U.S. used a secret space-based kinetic weapon called the ‘rod of god’ that can be dropped from ‘high orbit to strike almost any land-based target’.
Assassination attempt
Rumours have been circulating on Chinese language websites that the real target was President Hu Jintao, who was due to travel through the area with top officials after a secret meeting.
An insider told NTDTV.com: ‘The original plan was to wait until the Chinese communist meeting in Beidaihe to finish so when the high ranking officials returned, there will be an explosion on the railway between Tianjin and Heibei.’
The officials are said to have changed their plans at the last minute, and the killers instead decided to bomb the warehouse to get rid of any evidence.
An unnamed analyst told the website that if this was an assassination plot, the President would be the prime target.
Supercomputer
Chinese supercomputer Tianhe-1A was shut down as a result of the explosions, the official Xinhua news agency said, citing officials at the National Supercomputing Centre in Binhai.
The machine itself was intact after the explosion and running normally, Xinhua said, but the building housing it was damaged and it was switched off due to security concerns.
Some believe this important piece of equipment may have been the real target.
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