Satellites launched by SpaceX threatened collision with China's space station twice this year. The US should not permit SpaceX to do that.

China aside, Starlink's planned 12,000 satellites would increase the danger of collisions that would produce more space junk. Despite the best of care in choosing their orbits — which SpaceX appears not to have taken — it will be dangerous. So it should never have been approved. No activity should get approval for thousands of satellites.

To say "China does wrong too" does not constitute an excuse. In space, and on Earth, we must work together to avoid disaster, not argue about who is worse.