China views President Donald Trump’s ambitious Golden Dome missile defense shield as destabilizing and threatening to China’s large missile forces, similar to the way the Strategic Defense Initiative triggered the Soviet Union’s concerns in the 1980s, according to a report by a U.S. Air Force think tank.
The Defense Department has reportedly scheduled the first major test for the nationwide strategic missile defense system covering the U.S. for late 2028.
“The initial responses in the People’s Republic of China to Golden Dome have been overwhelmingly negative, with Beijing raising both strategic and normative objections to the U.S. reviving its past efforts to build a strategic missile defense system,” the Air Force’s China Aerospace Studies Institute wrote in an Aug. 11 report, The Washington Times reported Tuesday.
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