Although Su Ming was not an extreme human supremacist like the Emperor, if one asked what he thought of aliens, it certainly would not be anything positive.
Phoenix had blown up Shi'ar Empire ships and destroyed their planets, but what did that have to do with the X-Men on Earth?
Those aliens deserved to die.
The most absurd move the Shi'ar had made this time was making the X-Men bear the responsibility.
The Shi'ar knew they could not deal with Phoenix, yet they wanted to force Earthlings to do it. Most humans were physically inferior to the bird people, and even within the Shi'ar Empire, most of the population considered Earth a primitive civilization, with humans no different from social monkeys.
Since it was their accepted common sense that humans were inferior to the Shi'ar, why were they now forcing the weak to confront the stronger Phoenix?
They had probably learned through some channel that Deathstroke existed on Earth, and knew that the little bald man had a close relationship with him. If the X-Men encountered a problem they could not solve, the bald man would definitely ask Deathstroke to intervene.
Just like earlier.
Once Deathstroke agreed, he would inevitably have to venture deep into space and search endlessly for Phoenix's trail. That would give the Shi'ar a chance to infiltrate Earth and plunder the Savage Land.
They had coveted that place tens of thousands of years ago. After all, the Savage Land was a park and testing ground the Beyonders had commissioned the Nuwali to build. But it was not until 18,000 BC, when the Fortisquian was driven away by Earth's Second Generation Gods, that the Shi'ar Empire attempted to reach in and snatch chestnuts from the fire.
Odin chopped off their hand, and they had not recovered from