US looks for nonexistent threat

Uncle Sam uses China's hypersonic missile test to bolster its Asia-Pacific strategy and build more sophisticated weapons

The US media and some of its officials have raised a hue and cry about the recent hypersonic missile delivery vehicle test by China with the obvious intention of exaggerating "China's military threat".

According to the Washington Free Beacon, which first reported the test on Monday, China's hypersonic glide vehicle appears designed to be launched atop an intercontinental ballistic missile, and then glide and maneuver at 10 times of the speed of sound from near space en route to its target. It quoted a Pentagon official as saying that the test was conducted with the aim of sending warheads through the US missile defense system.