Lin Miao had plenty of things that could hurt these guys, but there weren't many he could openly bring out.
Otherwise, just a plasma emitter alone would be enough for Military Science to grab him on the spot and hang him up for a beating.
Major military industries have been researching plasma weapons, often releasing promotional videos on the media, but the costs remain high. They still can't normally constrain and safely store plasma at tens of thousands of degrees to make a magazine. Even the launchers equipped with Centaur exoskeletons are used on-the-spot. It's still somewhat difficult to apply them on a large scale in real combat.
For Lin Miao to bring something like this out was undoubtedly like a child holding gold in the marketplace, not comparable to the exoskeleton power armor that has been developed globally for over fifty years.
