News Analysis A new investigative report by the Financial Times asserted that China launched a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile, which circled the earth in a low orbit before striking down and narrowly missing a test target. The Chinese regime has officially denied the report’s findings, saying that the object in question was a spaceship. U.S. disarmament ambassador Robert Wood said that Washington was concerned about China’s possible deployment of hypersonic weaponry, and said that the United States had not developed a means of countering it. “Hypersonic technology is something that we have been concerned about, the potential military applications of it and we have held back from pursuing, we had held back from pursing military applications for this technology,” Wood said at a press meeting in Geneva on Oct. 18. “But we have seen China and Russia pursuing very actively the use, the militarization of this technology, so we are just …