Note:
(a) The report is a Chinese summary of the CNN report, which appeared just an hour ago (per Google news). Also, Four hours ago, Washington Post had a shorter report on the same warship. However, the above Chinese quotation is VOA Chinese's own (not from either CNN or Washington Times, that is).
(b) Brad Lendon, US Navy Sends Its Most Advanced Surface Warship to East Asia. Sept 27, 2022, updated 1:32 PM EDT. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/26/a ... l-hnk-ml/index.html
(i)
(A) The English surname came from "Lendon in [Village of] Dunsford ([County of] Devon [which was previously known as Devonshire]. Recorded As Lyndene 1332 in Subsidy Rolls (Devon) and therefore sometimes a variant of Linden."
(B) Tilia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilia
("native throughout most of the temperate Northern Hemisphere")
is a genus of deciduous trees and has different names *linden, basswood, line tree) in different regions. in China and Taiwan, trees in this genus are 菩提树.
(C) The English surnames Lindon and its variant Lyndon (as in Lyndon B Johnson) are from names of places: "Lindon in Lincolnshire, Linden End Haddenham in Cambridgeshire or [Village of] Lyndon, [County of] Rutland. All named from Old English lind lime tree or līn flax + dūn hill" Dictionary of American Family Names, by Oxford University Press.
(D) The Texan "Lyndon Baines Johnson was named after WC Linden, a lawyer and family friend. Baines was his mother's maiden name." from the Web.
(ii) Zumwalt is a surname.
(iii) There is little credible information online for "Common Hypersonic Glide Body," where "common" means co-development by and to be shared among army, navy and air force. So we will wait for its unveiling.
(c) Mike Glenn, USS Zumwalt, Navy's Stealth Destroyer, Arrives in Japan as Part of Overseas Deployment; New stealth destroyer class could be home for future hypersonic missiles. Washington Times, Sept 27, 2022. https://www.washingtontimes.com/ ... yer-arrives-japan-/