Covering the U.S.-China relations beat with the FT's Demetri Sevastopulo
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The Story of China's Hypersonic Glider
The hyprosonic glide vehicle is basically like a space shuttle. It's flying at more than five times the speed of sound, which is what hypersonic means. As it was flying over the south china sea, coming back in towards china after flying around the earth, it fired a projectile or a missile of some kind from the hyporsonic weapon. That is the unbelievable technology that the pentagon, at least several months ago, in andarpa, the advanced research arm of of thepentagon, did not understand how china had done that. No one had done it before. So that was really the highly advanced technological development that china showed, and that
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