The top US general has said China's suspected hypersonic missile test is close to a Sputnik moment, referring to the Soviet satellite launch that sparked the Cold War arms race.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley said in an interview with Bloomberg News that the Chinese military is "expanding rapidly".

The Financial Times reported this month that the test stunned the US military.

Beijing denies any missile test, saying instead it was a spacecraft.

"What we saw was a very significant event of a test of a hypersonic weapon system. And it is very concerning," Gen Milley told Bloomberg on Wednesday.

"I don't know if it's quite a Sputnik moment, but I think it's very close to that. It has all of our attention."

His comment is the first official acknowledgement by the US of claims that China conducted two missile tests over the summer. Reports indicate that it was a nuclear-capable missile that could evade US air defence systems.

The 1957 Soviet satellite launch of Sputnik shocked Americans, who feared that the Soviets were pulling ahead in technological ability.

The event spurred President John F Kennedy to declare that the US would land men on the moon, a goal achieved in less than a decade.

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby refused to comment on the general's remarks at a Wednesday briefing, saying: "This is not a technology that is alien to us, that we haven't been thinking about for a while."

He added that the US is working to strengthen defence systems and pursuing its own hypersonic capabilities.

Hypersonic missiles are capable of travelling at five times the speed of sound.

They are considered more manoeuvrable than conventional missiles and more capable of avoiding interception from air defence.

Last week the US conducted three hypersonic missiles tests, launched from a Nasa facility in Virginia.

The tests will be used to "inform the development" of future hypersonic missiles, US officials said in a statement.

Gen Milley also warned that the Chinese military has grown "from a peasant-based infantry army that was very, very large in 1979 to a very capable military that covers all the domains and has global ambitions".

According to CNN, CIA Director Bill Burns described China last week as the greatest technological threat to the United States. Earlier this month he said the spy agency would boost its efforts towards China.

President Joe Biden's White House has characterised the US-Chinese relationship as one of "strategic competition".

Gen Milley last month faced calls to resign and was accused of treasonous behaviour after it was reported that he had assured his Chinese counterpart in the last days of the Trump administration that the US would not launch a nuclear strike.

The chairman of the joint chiefs of staff later said the calls were "perfectly within the duties and responsibilities" of his job.

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I don't even know why the USA are worrying about anything here.

Hypersonic nuclear missiles are toys compared to the high caliber secret weapons in their arsenal. As Superpower, They have the capability to raid and decimate China, Russia and every other countries all in the space of 24 hours.
That's according to some inhabitants of Katsina state ofcourse

Really there's no cause for alarm

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Intercession:
I wonder

Wonder Wetin?

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Such missles need to be directed to the South East to take care of Igbos who are Nigerians and killing their fellow brothers and also it should be directed to the North East to take care of the bandits and common criminals who are from Mali and Niger.

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Good that a third world country is giving these crusaders & colonial masters though time.

Hmmmm

MangekyoAlt:
I don't even know why the USA are worrying about anything here.

Hypersonic nuclear missiles are toys compared to the high caliber secret weapons in their arsenal. As Superpower, They have the capability to raid and decimate China, Russia and every other countries all in the space of 24 hours.
That's according to some inhabitants of Katsina state ofcourse

Really there's no cause for alarm

Zombie wake up and stop living in 17BC...

All this US bull dogs always shouting US will destroy this and that.. In your small mind, you must really think China or Russia is Iran that US can bully anyhow.

US can only bully countries that have no strength of their own, China is gradually and covertly taking over the world's dominance but the world is still massaging America's ego while turning a blind eye to china's secret moves.

China showed the world its capability with COVID-19 (If you still don't believe it is a production of the Chinese, then you are ignorant)

You see those Chinese especially fear those people, they are silent pistols.

They should start this war already we are tired of all this muscle flexing since AD, all these paper tigers and toothless dogs

Make them kill themselves.

That's what we called MAD ( mutually assured destruction)

bushmeat about to catch the hunter

This extremely paranoia the country is showing is starting to affect our the world perceive us.

Everybody na police for him pocket. Uncle SAM mind your business.
If not for the Chinko's Military might Uncle Sam would have given HK back to U.K. Without stress.
The best form of defense is Attack . Kudos to the chinks woe unto Nigeria Government no single levels .
Wish this men will just sit down and have a rethink that security is your number goal before you loot.
Imagine after looting $1b usd and North Korea .
, china , U.K. Or US decides to invade Nigeria what will be your gain?
Las las these Nigerian politicians don't have sense .

OP abeg delete this post before Righteousness2 sees it

When a child run helter skelter in a dangerous manner,, it's the duty of the elders to caution and observe the child.

America being observing Chinese like.

CHINA NA NOISE MAKERS , WHEN E SET THEM GO KNOW SAY USA NA BIG BROTHER

If it gets to war, china has more to loose

Some ignoramus who knows nothing about international relations calling USA china's big brother, they both have unlimited resources and China is way more serious and war focused than USA,they spend thier time building projectiles,nuclear silos the size of cities, hypersonic missiles while my American folks are fighting about gay rights and which pronouns to use to address people of 3genders

Look at our damn army recruitment ad for God sake
It features a girl named ema with two lesbian mums

Surely the third world war is getting closer , even China too don join the Hypersonic nuclear missiles gang

Anyway we know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones -Albert Einstein

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They dont take the Chinese seriously, no one does. If it was Russia now, that would be a different story. Chinese is like the short, loud baggy jeans wearing thug who shouts, barks and walks around shirtless in the club just to show everyone how tough he is . His voice so loud , raspy and rough that he sounds like he eats nails for breakfast and you think he eats people alive yeah? Wrong! He is loud cause he is weak, the loudest one in the room is always the weakest one in the room. Chinese shooting off missiles into the sea doesn't make them tough

Fire a missile at the Pentagon or the Kremlin or the royal palace in the United Kingdom, them we know you are tough

The hypocrisy & double-standards of the United Snakes of Amerikastan are very appalling.

Why shouldn’t China and other Countries too amass and test their hypersonic missiles, seeing what Amerika has done to the weak & helpless nations across the globe?

The same Amerika that preaches democracy and freedom at home while installing brutal puppet dictators all over the world?

The same Amerika that espouses human rights at home while building the largest network of torture prisons in the history of the world?

The same Amerika that sings like a canary that human life is precious at home while murdering millions in other nations in trumped-up wars of liberation?

The same Amerika that moans about “the appalling loss of 5,000 Amerikan lives” in Iraq while killing one million Iraqis, half of whom were children?

The same Amerika that uses the CIA, NED, USAID and the VOA to pay and prod individuals in other countries to create internal political dissent, then condemn a government for cracking down on “innocent dissidents”?

The United Snakes of Amerikastan should at least stand in front of the mirror before castigating other Sovereign Countries.

a. Which US Secretary of State holds the World Record for being the most prolific baby-killer in recorded history?

Answer: Madeleine Albright; Iraq, 500,000

b. Which US General holds the World Record as the greatest pathological mass killer in modern history?

Answer: Cutis LeMay; about 20 million, give or take

c. Fidel Castro was listed in the Guinness Book of Records as surviving 638 murder attempts by the US government. For what was he being punished?

Answer: Expelling the Jews from Cuba

d. The father of which recent US President conspired with a group of Jewish bankers and industrialists in 1933, engaging a famous General to amass an army of 500,000 troops to overthrow the US government and install a fascist dictatorship in America?

Answer: George Bush

e. How many times has the US invaded Canada?

Answer: Five so far

f. The US has been a nation for about 245 years. For how many of those years has the US been at war?

Answer: 235

g. How many democracies has the US installed in other nations during its lifetime? How many brutal dictatorships has the US installed in other nations during its lifetime?

Answer: Zero. More than 50, and counting

h. Japan conducted abominable human experimentation in China during WWII – Shiro Ishii’s infamous Unit 731. Why was Japan spared war crimes trials?

Answer: Ishii and his entire unit were transported to the US to teach Americans the pleasures of live vivisections and other atrocities. Ishii was a Professor at the University of Maryland until his death decades later.

i. How many Presidents, Prime Ministers and senior government officials of other countries has the US assassinated for disobedience or obstruction to hegemony?

Answer: More than 150, and counting (including Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary-General of the UN)

j. Which country operates the only Torture University in the world?

Answer: The US of A; the “University of the Americas” in Fort Benning, Georgia.

k. For several hundred years, slave-trading was the highest-paying job in America. What was the second-highest-paying?

Answer: Killing Indians

l. Which government for about 100 years paid a lifetime salary to any citizen who could steal patents and processes from other countries?

Answer: The US of A. Amounts of $20,000 to $50,000, in the 1800s

m. Which revered US Supreme Court justice recommended killing off all Americans of low IQ?

Answer: Oliver Wendell Holmes

n. The government of which country for decades silenced political dissidents by performing frontal lobotomies and turning them into vegetables?

Answer: The US of A. (FBI)

o. Which famous American institution recommended “mercy killings” of the economically unfit, these to be performed in local gas chambers?

Answer: Carnegie

p. Which American Defense Secretary gathered 500,000 young men with an average IQ of about 65 and sent them to Vietnam? How many returned? What was his punishment?

Answer: Robert McNamara. Not many, but the Defense Dept. refuses to release statistics. Made President of the World Bank.

q. Which American Military physician appeared before Congress in what year, asking for $10 million to fund the creation of the HIV virus? Did he receive the money?

Answer: Dr. Donald MacArthur, Deputy Director, Research and Engineering, Department of Defense. 1969. Yes.

r. When and where was Coca-Cola invented?

Answer: The Spanish town of Aielo de Malferit, 40 years before Coke stole the patent.

s. Which famous person invented the incandescent light bulb? Which the telephone? The most famous American inventor was Thomas Edison. How many things did Edison invent?

Answer: Joseph Swan, USA, five years before Edison stole the patent. Antonio Meucci, Italy, five years before Bell stole the patent. None. All Edison’s patents were either stolen, bullied, extorted or purchased.

t. We are told Germany killed some 6,000,000 Jews during WWII. How many Germans were killed in Germany AFTER the end of WWII?

Answer: Between 12 million and 14 million; some by execution, the bulk by starvation.

u. Which famous physicist wrote to Roosevelt, offering to fund the entire unknown cost of creating the atomic bomb, stating the funds were already confirmed available?

Answer: Albert Einstein, funds offered by Rothschild and other European Jewish bankers.

v. Which famous US President was the illegitimate son of a Jewish slave trader?

Answer: Abraham Lincoln; the son of A. A. Springs(tein) and Nancy Hanks. Adopted by the Lincoln family.

w. Abraham Lincoln’s wife was an inveterate opium addict. Who was her opium supplier?

Answer: A Jewish drug dealer named John Wilkes Booth.

x. In what year was slavery abolished in the US?

Answer: Slavery was never abolished in the US. It just changed form.

y. Which US President exposed tens of millions of US citizens to radiation from open-air atomic tests, then instructed medics to inform women experiencing leukemia, hair loss, miscarriages, that they were suffering from “housewife syndrome”?

Answer: Eisenhower

z. Which famous shoe did Nike design that set Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman on the road to fame and glory?

Answer: The Japanese Onitsuka Tiger. Nike stole the design and began manufacturing in the US. American courts ruled Onitsuka and Nike could “share” the patent.

Patrioticman007:
Good that a third world country is giving these crusaders & colonial masters though time.

Stop calling yourself or any country "third world" - this is a term invented by colonial masters to enslave your mind...
Nigeria is actually better than USA in terms of gun violence and mass shooters; you are more likely to die of gun violence in Chicago, Atlanta and New York from gun violence than in Enugu or Kano Nigerians wont see this. Emancipate yourselves from inferiority complex.

Nigeria is also better than USA culturally (in some areas).

Nigeria is better than USA in terms of investment opportunities.