Given that they have a working space station, I'm certain China has enough launch capability to make the Starlink orbit hell with several well-placed rockets undergoing very dirty disassembly in orbit.

(In fact, among the things that makes that scenario less likely is the fact they have a space station and would like to keep visiting it without worrying about passing through a Kessler cloud).

A Kessler cloud would not persist in orbit at the altitude of Starlink satellites for very long.

And building and maintaining a Kessler cloud at that altitude seems like it would be… not effective with just a handful of rockets due to the significant atmospheric drag.

Kessler syndrome is a real concern, but only at higher altitudes where atmospheric drag is negligible.

A space station doesn't mean you have a lot of launch capability.

Its and its not clear how you standard rockets can easily be used as anti-sat weapons, and if that makes finical sense.

> Given that they have a working space station, I'm certain China has enough launch capability to make the Starlink orbit hell with several well-placed rockets undergoing very dirty disassembly in orbit.

Yes and their "working space station" is also below that orbit. So they'd need to blow up their own station as well. Also the international space station as well.

US had a working space station for over a decade without the ability to put people onto that space station.

This is true, but seems irrelevant because China is self-crewing its station.