Above, artists impression of Chinese hypersonic vehicle.
‘We will lose the new Cold War with Communist China within the decade’: Stark warning to the US after Chinese launches ‘hypersonic missile that orbits the Earth at 3,8000mph’ but Beijing claims it is just a routine test for the ‘PEACEFUL use of space’
- China test-launched a hypersonic nuclear weapon back in August that is designed to dodge missile defences
- Weapon was carried into orbit on a rocket, before circling Earth and crashing down on a target at speeds of up to 3,800mph – though it missed by up to 24 miles, sources familiar with the test said
- Analysts caught off-guard by launch, which shows China’s missile tech is much-more advanced than thought
- Mike Gallagher, a Republican member of the US armed services committee, blasted Biden as ‘complacent’ and said US risks losing out on new ‘Cold War’ arms race with China within the next decade
- Beijing played down the threat, saying launch was a routine test of a spacecraft for the peaceful use of space
- NATO said it needed to look at China’s throwing threat, along with its traditional focus on Russia
Chris Pleasance, Rachel Bunyan, Katie Feehan and Stewart Carr – Mail Online Oct 18, 2021
America will lose a new Cold War arms race with China within a decade unless it takes a tougher stance with Beijing, a Republican congressman has warned after it was claimed the Chinese tested a new hypersonic nuclear-capable missile.
Mike Gallagher, a member of the armed services committee, blasted the Biden administration for ‘complacency’ and said America needs to ‘aggressively’ re-think its relations with China after security sources reported that Beijing launched a rocket that carried a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile into space in August.
While China was known to be working on the technology, the test took analysts by surprise and indicated Beijing’s missile programme is more advanced than previously thought. ‘We have no idea how they did this,’ one said.
DF-17 hypersonic glide vehicles on parade in Beijing. Click to enlarge
However, Beijing played down the launch’s threat today, claiming it was a ‘routine test’ of new technology.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said the launch involved a spacecraft rather than a missile and was of ‘great significance for reducing the use-cost of spacecraft and could provide a convenient and affordable way to make a round trip for mankind’s peaceful use of space.
‘China will work together with other countries in the world for the peaceful use of space and the benefit of mankind.’
China’s space program is run by its military and is closely tied to its agenda of building hypersonic missiles and other technologies that could alter the balance of power with the United States.
Issuing a stark warning after news of the test became public at the weekend, Mr Gallagher said: ‘If we stick to our current complacent course… we will lose the New Cold War with Communist China within the decade.
‘The People’s Liberation Army now has an increasingly credible capability to undermine our missile defenses and threaten the American homeland with both conventional and nuclear strikes.’
Meanwhile, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg, speaking after the launch of the new missile was revealed, said the alliance will reposition itself to tackle the growing threat from China separate from its historic focus on Russia.
‘Nato is an alliance of North America and Europe. But this region faces global challenges: terrorism, cyber but also the rise of China, he told the Financial Times.
‘So when it comes to strengthening our collective defence, that’s also about how to address the rise of China. What we can predict is that the rise of China will impact our security. It already has.
‘China is coming closer to us . . . We see them in the Arctic. We see them in cyber space. We see them investing heavily in critical infrastructure in our countries. And of course they have more and more high-range weapons that can reach all Nato allied countries.’
China carried out a test of the new hypersonic weapon back in August, which defence analysts said was launched into space on a Long March rocket.
Beijing has been regularly announcing launches of the rocket, including the 77th launch in July this year and the 79th launch in late August. But it never announced a 78th launch. It is now thought that rocket was carrying a dummy nuclear warhead.
Analysts believe that the rocket was carrying a hypersonic glide vehicle – of the kind that China has showed off before in military parades – which was released into low-Earth orbit, circling the globe at speeds up to Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound.
It was then brought out of orbit and came crashing back to Earth, missing its target by some 24 miles. While this shows the weapon is not ready for deployment, it never-the-less stunned analysts who believed China was still far off being able to mount an active test.
Beijing did not report the test or its results at the time, but after it was disclosed the country’s state media mocked America by saying it is a ‘new blow to the US’s mentality of strategic superiority over China‘.
An op-ed in the Chinese state media outlet Global Times, Beijing’s mouthpiece, said the test means ‘there is a key new member in China’s nuclear deterrence system’, adding that this is a ‘new blow to the US’s mentality of strategic superiority over China’.
It is just the latest move in a global arms race between Russia, China and the US which is taking place against the backdrop of mounting tensions between the superpowers in the eastern Pacific.
All three countries are engaged in wholesale updates of their militaries including the development of new nuclear technology with which they can strike each-other at range.
China appears to have made huge progress recently with the development of its hypersonic weapons. Image from a recent test. Click to enlarge
Russia and China have, in recent years, unveiled new and more-powerful ICBMs which are capable of launching multiple nuclear warheads at targets many thousands of miles away.
But China’s new hypersonic missile takes the technology one step further. ICBMs work by firing the nuclear warheads into space on an arched trajectory, before they fall back to earth at speeds up to 18,000mph – detonating just above their intended targets and wiping them out.
Because they fly on an arched trajectory, the missiles and the warheads they carry fly far above the atmosphere before coming back down. Current missile defence technology is designed to detect those launches, track the warheads as they reach the peak of that arch, then shoot them as they fall – before they hit their targets.
The hypersonic warhead is different. It flies low in the atmosphere, making it harder to track, and can be repositioned in flight, making it difficult to calculate where it will land and therefore difficult to intercept.
And because it uses the Earth’s orbit to propel itself, it has potentially limitless range. This means it can be fired in any direction – blindsiding radar systems that are currently pointed in only one direction, over the North Pole, which is where any nuclear attack on the US using ICBMs would come from.
The Chinese know that unless they have the capacity to nuke mainland America, they will be attacked. They have probably told the US’s Israeli controllers that they will get it too, if they start a war.
Fact: China faked atom bomb tests. China faked a space walk. China faked a moon lander.
But this “artist’s impression” of a “hypersonic rocket” that’s “nuclear warhead capable” and “uses the
Earth’s orbit to propel itself” and has “potentially limitless range” has me shaking.
Run for your lives! Duck and Cover!
Seriously, China is a slave race country created by the same bankers that rule N. America, S. America, Europe and Russia. It’s major cities are polluted crowded noisy condo nightmares. It is a police state with all that implies, the notion of individual liberty doesn’t even exist. They are not a creative people. Most of urban China is slavery and poor and drab. Mile after mile after mile of drab concrete buildings. Don’t be fooled by the Shanghai skyline or some high speed rail lines or modern airports or factories.
That is why they leave China by the tens of millions and there is no end in sight. That is why once beautiful cities like Vancouver, cities where once you could raise a white family, become crowded condo hell holes where a white man can barely afford to live in a rabbit hutch sized basement apartment owned by someone from China or India. The dream of owning a home and raising a family is long gone. And they are coming by the tens of millions from India as well. They buy homes and fill them with “international students” who immediately apply for government assistance and that drives out white neighbors. Up goes property taxes, the crime rate soars, the police force becomes brown, the schools and colleges become multicultural sewers and that’s the way it is. By the way, the Chinese people I talked to don’t like Muslims or Indians but they turn their basements into rooms and rent to them.
It’s bound to happen sometime, Another World War. !
The profits to be made are too lucrative to resist, & imagine being able to reap the benefits form the business deals there after.
Why should we worry,
There is absolutely nothing we can do to stop it.
Personally, I think this ‘re-set’ thing has probably all been played out before, possibly many times,
We, the populous, are less than little blind mice. with about as much influence.
So it would seem.
The hyper-hyped super-duperized faster than a mighty hurl of luchre ascerts superiority over previously hurled luchre.
Can’t help imaginating a fully operational death star that could blow that hype into next week with a space-based super-duper space laser, you know, like uncle Ronnie Raygun did with his mighty hurl of luchre, what, FORTY years ago.
Go ahead yawn, we’re all gonna die anyway.
Maybe China can nuke “our” Moslem populations and do us a favour. All we do for defence is give the country to everyone in the world.
ADVANCING OR RETREATING;
THERE WILL NEVER BE A POSITIVE
SOLUTION !
Don’t worry about it, the Zionist-Communist Cryptocrats control all these ‘superpowers’–USA, China, Russia, UK etc…They have to convince the moronic masses that there are still ‘independent nations’, to orchestrate staged conflict/wars & mask their global power. Figure it out, if you can..
@Bob Smith
“Fact: China faked atom bomb tests. China faked a space walk. China faked a moon lander…”
Indeed, but substitute any other nation into that sentence and it works too mate…:-)
to simon smith – you are absolutely correct. NO MAN has landed on the moon and what we saw was faked. there is the little problem of the electro magentic field at 200 miles up that would fry humans. the russians know this hence they have always said us of a never went to to the moon or any where else above 200 miles where a manned flight is concerned
@Simon Smith
Right you are but you have to admit the Americans faked the A bomb tests and moon landing so much better. You had the banker family R. Openheimer chanting “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds” from the Bhagavada Yada Yada Vida or something like that. Then he danced around the room with General Groves.
E. Teller and his toad voice faking a H bomb, all that Wagner music set to the Ivey Mike fake bomb. Then there was the fake Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings which were done after the fire bombings of those cities. All those minature sets of houses blown away without the camers moving or shaking after a “nuclear blast”! Then there was the fake Tsar Bomba that was supposed to be 100 megaton reduced to 50 megaton; Kruschev put on quite a show. How about Alain Resnais’ film Hiroshima mon amour? That’s gotta count for something.
The Moon Landings, well good old American Know How got man to the moon six times! “But we doestroyed that technology and it would be a painful process to create it again” according to the very Jewish looking Don Petit. But the moon was much closer to the earth in those days and who cares if the images were black and blurry and the moon buggy had the same grease stain on the same wheel for different missions. It was just coincidence! What a joke! And millions swear that man landed on the moon because they saw it on (((TV))).
You forgot the fake geiger counters that gave high readings at alamagordo
How can a land, filled with people who ran away from every troubled area of the globe, to the “Land of the Free”, ever be anything other than a land of cowards who ran away to be free?
And they all trust in the demented father god to save them too.
What a deluded bunch of morons they are!
And 2020 is the year when reality bites and “the Land of the Free” become the land of the slave race.