US ‘very concerned’ despite China denials over hypersonic missile

Disarmament ambassador casts doubt on ability to defend against technology after reports of test

The United States is very concerned" about China's development of hypersonic technology, the US disarmament ambassador, Robert Wood, has said, after reports that Beijing had recently launched a hypersonic missile with a nuclear capacity.

We are very concerned by what China has been doing on the hypersonic front," Robert Wood told reporters in Geneva.