China has asked the United States to defend the International Space Station from satellites.

China is requesting that the US secure a Chinese space station and its three-person crew after Elon Musk’s SpaceX fired satellites that nearly collided with the station.

Following the July 1 and October 21 mishaps, a foreign ministry spokesman accused Washington of neglecting its treaty commitments to guarantee the safety of the Tiangong station’s three-member crew.

In a Dec. 6 protest to the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, the government claimed that the Tiangong executed “evasive maneuvers” to “avoid a probable collision” with Starlink satellites launched by Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

According to the spokesman, Zhao Lijian, the US should “take appropriate measures to avoid similar occurrences from occurring again.”

Zhao accused the United States of failing to uphold its commitments under a 1967 treaty on the peaceful use of space to “guard the safety of astronauts.”

The Tiangong’s initial module was released in April. After a 90-day mission, the first crew returned to Earth in September. The second crew, consisting of two men and one women, arrived on the 16th of October for a six-month mission.