{"id":38267,"date":"2021-10-23T01:59:25","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T16:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/22\/hypersonic-glider-weapons-china-new-arms-race"},"modified":"2021-10-23T01:59:25","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T16:59:25","slug":"chinas-hypersonic-glider-weapons-test-threatens-to-drive-new-arms-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38267","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s hypersonic glider weapons test threatens to drive new arms race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: China recently tested a nuclear-capable manoeuvrable missile and Russia and the US have their own programmes<\/p>\n<p>A new focus on hypersonic glider weapons, after a reportedly successful Chinese test, is helping drive an arms race that is eclipsing hopes of a return to disarmament by the world\u2019s major powers.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese test on 27 July, first reported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/ba0a3cde-719b-4040-93cb-a486e1f843fb\">Financial Times,<\/a> involved putting into orbit a nuclear-capable glider, travelling at five times the speed of sound, which then re-entered the atmosphere and performed some turns on its way to a target.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/22\/hypersonic-glider-weapons-china-new-arms-race\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: China recently tested a nuclear-capable manoeuvrable missile and Russia and the US have their own programmesA new focus on hypersonic glider weapons, after a reportedly successful Chinese test, is helping drive an arms race that is eclipsing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,441,419,473,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-nuclear-weapons","category-russia","category-us-military","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38268,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38267\/revisions\/38268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}