{"id":148077,"date":"2026-03-18T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T01:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=148077"},"modified":"2026-03-18T01:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T01:00:13","slug":"controversy-haunts-death-of-chinas-lead-hypersonic-weapons-expert-fang-daining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=148077","title":{"rendered":"Controversy haunts death of China\u2019s lead hypersonic weapons expert Fang Daining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFang Daining, a key scientist in China\u2019s hypersonic weapons programme, has died at the age of 68, according to an image of an obituary notice that began circulating on Chinese social media last week.<br \/>\nEarly online discussions included claims that Fang, who was also a Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) member, the country\u2019s highest academic title in science and technology, suffered an unexpected medical episode during a work trip to South Africa.<br \/>\nThe South China Morning Post could not confirm the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3346904\/controversy-haunts-death-chinas-lead-hypersonic-weapons-expert-fang-daining?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFang Daining, a key scientist in China\u2019s hypersonic weapons programme, has died at the age of 68, according to an image of an obituary&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148077"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}