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Donald Trump has claimed China's hypersonic missile whose launch stunned the White House was created with technology stolen from the US via Russia.
Speaking on Hugh Hewitt's radio show on Wednesday, the former president said: 'You know, somebody gave them, during the Obama Administration, everything we had on hypersonic.'
'And Russia did it, and what I did is a catch-up program. And we’ve largely caught-up. But what happened is Russia got it and the China got it perhaps from Russia.'
'I doubt they did it themselves,' he said. 'They got it perhaps from Russia, maybe from some bad spy in the United States.'
Trump claimed that China stole their hypersonic missile technology from the United States during an interview with Hugh Hewitt (right) on Wednesday
In July China carried out a hypersonic weapon test with a missile fired at five times the speed of sound (president Xi Jinping pictured)
The president offered no further detail to his claims, and officials have yet to make any comment on claims it was stolen while Barack Obama was in office.
In September 2020, months before the July 2021 launch by China, the White House had admitted the US was trying to catch-up with China and Russia with hypersonic