The top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee is warning that America could lose the “new Cold War” with China in the next decade, after Beijing’s launch of a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile that caught US intelligence officials off guard. .

“If we stick to our current complacent course — or place our hopes in bankrupt buzzwords like ‘integrated deterrence’ — we will lose the New Cold War with Communist China within the decade.

In the editorial in the Global Times — the Chinese Communist Party mouthpiece — China taunted the US over the success of the hypersonic missile. 

“It is important to note the unstoppable trend that China is narrowing the gap with the US in some key military technologies as China is continuously developing its economic and technological strength

China doesn’t need to engage in an ‘arms race’ with the US — it is capable of weakening the US’ overall advantages over China by developing military power at its own pace,” ​it continued.​