One week after the United States rejected the Chinese-Russian proposal of banning weapon deployment in space, China fought back on U.S.’ decision to shoot a missile in order to destroy a falling satellite and highly criticized the American actions.

The United States’ reaction was exactly the same last year, when China shot down one of its own satellites, but the Bush administration apparently thought of the space shot to be absolutely necessary this time, so as to prevent possible deaths.

The Communist’s Party newspaper, People’s daily, said: “The United States, the world’s top space power, has often accused other countries of vigorously developing military space technology, but faced with the Chinese-Russian proposal to restrict space armaments, it runs in fear from what it claimed to love.”

At the same time, Foreign Ministry spokesman said in a news conference that China will closely monitor U.S. activity in order to determine whether it negatively influences other countries: “China further requests that the U.S. fulfill its international obligations in earnest and promptly provide to the international community the necessary information and relevant data so that relevant countries can take precautions.”

Russia also adopted China’s position and said the United States have initiated an action that is much more than just an “avoiding damage story”, and that the United States is using the satellite story as an excuse to test the anti-missile defense system.

Considering they were unable to reach an agreement so far on banning weapon use in space, it is even less likely now that the United States, China and Russia will reach an agreement anytime soon. Earlier this month U.S. refused the proposal forwarded by the two super powers, saying that it agreed with the free use of space, but such a treaty would be impossible to materialize, as any object transiting space could turn into a weapon, just by setting its course onto a collision trajectory with another space object.