News Snapshot:
On October 24, Financial Times reported that the Chinese military tested two earth-circling hypersonic weapons in July and August, raising eyebrows across the world. The missile circled the Earth at a low altitude and a velocity of more than five times the speed of sound, although it missed its target by more than 30 kilometres (19 miles), according to the report. The news of the test spread like wildfire, with the US dubbing it a Sputnik moment — a reference to a tectonic event in 1957 when the erstwhile-USSR took the lead in global space race and launched the first...
