11 since 1964, but only only two of those since 1967 - scratch that is now THREE since China just did it.
In other words was hardly normal for the historical space powers for the last 50+ years.
But I'm not even sure what you are arguing anymore.
First you say:
> What supports your belief that China are pushing this to become normal, as opposed to not being already the norm? A closer look at some of the large objects which has re-entered as well as a few cases of incidents and their origins, suggests the USA together with USSR then Russia normalised this practice decades ago.
Then:
> This list is both incomplete and doesn't take into account future known events, such as the one in OP article...
Everyone stopped doing uncontrolled reentries ages ago, and now China has started doing it, which is the whole reason for the OP. But you seem to want to redirect criticism away from China and back onto the USA and USSR/Russia.
>Everyone stopped doing uncontrolled reentries ages ago
SpaceX Falcon 9 second stage dropped debris on Canada and Washington state in march 2021. There's nothing abnormal in uncontrolled reentries when using new equipment (in rocket time that is quite a long time). Faults happen. It's this or no rockets at all.
In other words was hardly normal for the historical space powers for the last 50+ years.
But I'm not even sure what you are arguing anymore.
First you say:
> What supports your belief that China are pushing this to become normal, as opposed to not being already the norm? A closer look at some of the large objects which has re-entered as well as a few cases of incidents and their origins, suggests the USA together with USSR then Russia normalised this practice decades ago.
Then:
> This list is both incomplete and doesn't take into account future known events, such as the one in OP article...
Everyone stopped doing uncontrolled reentries ages ago, and now China has started doing it, which is the whole reason for the OP. But you seem to want to redirect criticism away from China and back onto the USA and USSR/Russia.