China puts US on back foot with ‘game-changing’ hypersonic missile test Taipei: China’s test of a hypersonic missile in space is a “game-changer” that should fundamentally alter the US’s calculations about Beijing’s military leverage, experts have warned. Over the weekend, it emerged that the Chinese military in August secretly launched a rocket carrying a hypersonic glide vehicle into space, which flew around the globe in a low-Earth orbit before returning to China. China’s hypersonic wind-tunnel in Beijing for testing aircraft that travel at up to 30 times the speed of sound. While the missile reportedly missed its target by about...