British media recently disclosed that a Chinese rocket scientist has defected to the West. Information associated with the aerospace engineer’s defect was first published by the Daily Express in the article “Global tensions grow as Chinese rocket scientist defects to the West,” on Jan. 23. The Chinese national, having “been passed over for promotion” while working for the state-owned Aviation Industry Corps, decided to make contact with a British Intelligence agent in Hong Kong during September 2021, after which he escaped to the United States with his family through the help of the British foreign intelligence service, MI6. The scientist is said to have participated in multiple hypersonic weapon projects, including a “hypersonic boost-glide vehicle capable of carrying DF-17 missiles to a range of up to 2,000 miles” and a hypersonic missile delivery system that can “strike any target on Earth.” According to an anonymous intelligence source in the article, …