What Are Those Chinese Up To In Space?

While Russia is today's big bogeyman, China also gets it fair share of scare stories thrown at it and the latest is the   mysterious Chinese spacecraft which released an unidentified 'object' into orbit.
According to US Intelligence, the mysterious Chinese spacecraft has landed after nine months in orbit on a secret mission and the Chinese State Media did admit as much saying that the experiment had been a 'complete success'.
Hmmm....with no other details provided is obviously something a bit iffy but the Americans know that it was uncrewed, relatively small and the craft released an 'object' into orbit sometime in October which disappeared from their satellite tracking screens in January.
Obviously the only conclusion is that the sneaky Chinese have progressed from Weather Balloons to hiding space weapons above our heads and are positioning nukes or lasers in space ready to annihilate us in our beds so who could complain about a few more hundred billion being shoved towards the military to
keep us safe in our beds.
Hang on, what's this bit at the bottom of the intelligence report? They believe that the craft made use of a mechanical robot arm and they were practising satellite removal capability to repair damaged satellites or remove orbital debris which would explain the object disappearing, it was released and then grabbed again.
The Chinese developing the technology to repair their satellites isn't going to be scary enough to increase the U.S. Space Force's $30 billion budget so just say Chinese Secret Space Mission over and over until the Government agree to spend more on stopping those pesky Chinese satellite fixers.