The Chinese regime’s fielding of a new hypersonic weapons system could indicate that the nation is shifting away from its policy of not using nuclear weapons first in a potential conflict, according to the Pentagon’s second-highest-ranking officer. “They look like a first-use weapon,” said outgoing vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. John Hyten during an interview with CBS. “That’s what those weapons look like to me.” The comments by Hyten, who is due to retire later this week, referenced the test of a nuclear-capable hypersonic glide vehicle with an orbital bombardment system back in late July, which reportedly caught the U.S. intelligence community by surprise. “They launched a long-range missile,” Hyten said. “It went around the world, dropped off a hypersonic glide vehicle that glided all the way back to China, that impacted a target in China.” The system is of concern because the United States’ current …