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by cf141q5325 2677 days ago
Its in the article

>China's proposal, meanwhile, appears to suggest converting solar energy into electric energy in space, before beaming back to Earth using a microwave or laser and feeding into the grid via a ground receiving system.

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Short version: they can fry a target in any country in about a day.
If the country is small enough they can fry that too. I can think of a likely candidate already.