Milley: China's 'significant' hypersonic test creates 'strategic instability'

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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley today said the Pentagon remains concerned about a recent Chinese hypersonic missile test that he has characterized as a near-"Sputnik moment." "That test that occurred was a very significant test," he said at an Aspen Institute event in Washington. "I won't go into anything classified." Milley said the test is not a true "Sputnik moment" because that satellite capability was totally new when it was introduced by the Soviet Union in 1957, while the United States has been experimenting, developing and investing in hypersonic missile technology for years.