{"id":244677,"date":"2021-10-28T05:53:58","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T05:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=244677"},"modified":"2021-10-30T05:22:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T05:22:29","slug":"gen-milley-calls-chinese-weapon-test-very-concerning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=244677","title":{"rendered":"Gen. Milley Calls Chinese Weapon Test ‘Very Concerning’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Burns — Associated Press Oct 27, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Gen. Mark Milley. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

China recently conducted a \u201cvery concerning\u201d test of a hypersonic weapon system as part of its aggressive advance in space and military technologies, the top U.S. military officer says.<\/p>\n

Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was the first Pentagon official to confirm on the record the nature of a test this year by the Chinese military that the Financial Times had reported was a nuclear-capable hypersonic weapon that was launched into space and orbited the Earth before re-entering the atmosphere and gliding toward its target in China.<\/p>\n

Milley said he could not discuss details because aspects involved classified intelligence. He said the United States also is working on hypersonic weapons, whose key features include flight trajectory, speed and maneuverability that make them capable of evading early warning systems that are part of U.S. missile defenses. The U.S. has not conducted a hypersonic weapon test of the sort Milley said China had achieved.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we saw was a very significant event of a test of a hypersonic weapon system, and it is very concerning,” Milley said on \u201cThe David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations\u201d on Bloomberg Television.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I saw in some of the newspapers, they used the term Sputnik moment,\u201d he added. \u201cI don\u2019t know if it\u2019s quite a Sputnik moment, but I think it\u2019s very close to that. So it\u2019s a very significant technological event that occurred, or test that occurred, by the Chinese. And it has all of our attention.\u201d<\/p>\n

The launch of a Sputnik satellite by the Soviet Union in 1957 stunned the world and fed U.S. fears that it was falling behind technologically in an accelerating arms race in the early stages of the nuclear age.<\/p>\n

China has disputed Western news reports about its test, saying it was working on technology for a re-useable space vehicle for peaceful purposes.<\/p>\n

Some U.S. defense experts say the worry about China’s work on a hypersonic weapon that could deliver a nuclear weapon from space are overblown.<\/p>\n

James Acton of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace wrote in an essay last week that the United States has long been vulnerable to a Chinese nuclear attack.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the prospect of a nuclear attack against the United States is terrifying, this is no Sputnik moment \u2014 partly because it\u2019s not entirely clear what was tested, but mostly because the threat of a Chinese nuclear attack on the United States isn\u2019t remotely new,\u201d Acton wrote.<\/p>\n

In addition to its advances in hypersonic weapons, China has been expanding its network of underground silos that could be used to launch intercontinental-range nuclear missiles, and it has rebuffed U.S. calls to join nuclear arms control talks. The U.S. also has raised concerns about what it calls Chinese efforts to intimidate Taiwan, the self-ruled island that China claims as part of its territory, and to claim disputed islands and other land features in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n

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Associated Press writer Lolita C. Baldor contributed to this report.<\/p>\n

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Following the successful test of a Chinese hypersonic weapon, Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff admits that the U.S. is in danger of falling behind in the 21st century arms race<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244677"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244742,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244677\/revisions\/244742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}