Iran absorbed the kinetic loss in the Gulf — China absorbed the engineering data. Every Chinese CM-302 cruise missile the U.S. Navy has shot down since Operation Epic Fury began on February 28 has been likely tracked from orbit by Beijing’s Jilin-1 constellation, 130 commercial imaging satellites mapping the U.S. intercept geometry in real time. The hypersonic DF-17 that China actually plans to use against American aircraft carriers was never te…