China Used American Tech to Create Hypersonic Missile: McCaul

A leading Republican said the Chinese communist regime is using American technology to develop its new weapons systems, and leveraging predatory international deals to secure access to vital trade infrastructure.

Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said that Chinese weapons, including the hypersonic missile tested by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) last year, have been built using American technology.

“What’s probably the biggest highlighted example of this? The hypersonic missile,” McCaul said during a fireside chat with the Atlantic Council, a D.C.-based think tank. “The weapon that we saw China launch with great precision … and can actually carry a nuclear warhead.”

“When you study it, you realize that that was actually built on the backbone of American technology.”

The US Navy, in collaboration with the US Army, conducts a static fire test of the first stage of the newly developed 34.5″ common hypersonic missile that will be fielded by both services, in Promontory, Utah, U.S., in this handout image taken on Oct. 28, 2021. (Northrop Grumman/Handout via Reuters)

McCaul’s comments follow closely behind the release of a report by intelligence firm Strider Technologies, which found that at least 162 researchers from the United States’ top nuclear facility have since worked for China, many of them in a military capacity, including hypersonics.

Infiltrating the West

McCaul and the report both said that many of the CCP’s foreign outreach programs, such as its 1,000 Talents program, were explicitly designed to harvest intellectual property from the United States.

“What they do is they infiltrate our researchers, and they give them a lot of many,” McCaul said.

“And some, in the 1,000 Talents program, they will give the mothership back in China this research and development.”

McCaul, who is now the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said that he first became concerned about