China plans to hit an asteroid with a Mach 26 projectile in planet defence test. Really!

Why has China been so busy again and again to demonstrate what a global superpower they are for several years? Here is another example!

Is Xi Jinping (age 73, in power for over 13 years) becoming a sort of megalomaniac?

 

China plans to hit an asteroid with a Mach 26 projectile in planet defence test | South China Morning Post "Spacecraft to hit at 9km/s, equivalent to over 26 times the speed of sound near sea level and nearly 50 per cent faster than Nasa’s mission"