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So I'm going to begin with two contrasting stories because this really does sum up the state of where America is right now, culturally.

So two stories break over the weekend, seemingly unrelated, but kind of related.

One is this amazing story

about how China had developed this massive missile technology that basically took the United

States by surprise. A lot of people are calling it a second Sputnik moment. Sputnik, of course,

is the moment when the Soviet Union was the first to launch a spacecraft that actually orbited the Earth and the rest of the, and the rest of the world.

It's like, whoa, where did the USSR come from here?

We thought that they were way behind, technologically speaking.

This, of course, launches the space race and leads to President Kennedy suggesting that eventually we're going to go to the moon.

All of this was about the Soviet Union surprising everyone with the technological prowess of sending a spacecraft into Earth orbit.

Well, now the Chinese have basically done the same thing, and this is going to lead, you would imagine, to a bit of a new arms race here, according to the UK Daily Mail.

Beijing has mocked America by saying their secret test of a 21,000 mile per-per-hour nuclear-capable missile, which orbited the globe before returning to Earth to strike its target, is a new blow to the U.S. mentality of strategic superiority over China.

The job follows a report from the Financial Times, which cited five unnamed intelligence sources, saying that the Chinese military launched the long-marched rocket in August,

carrying a hypersonic glide vehicle into low orbit. It circled the globe before descending toward

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