Trump unveils $175 billion Golden Dome missile defense plan to guard Earth and space, sparking strong Chinese opposition and fears of space becoming a warzone.
Trump’s Bold Space Defense Vision
The Trump era has seen an announcement from US President Donald Trump of the ‘Golden Dome’ missile defense to protect USA not only from threats on Earth—but from space. The extremely expensive next-gen multi-layered defense systems which will cost close to USD$ 175 billion could make the most elaborate American military tech deployed beyond Earth.
Space: The New Battlefield
Trump said that he hopes to get the Golden Dome fully operational before 2029 (when his term ends). This system is a space interceptor and will ensure that even missile launched from space will be neutralized. It would be the first time that the United States had military weapons deployed and functioning off-planet, thus redefining international security.
China Fires Back: ‘Violates Space Peace’
China whipped up a strong reaction with the notion dismissed as aggressive and dangerous. In response, a spokesperson from Chinese Foreign Ministry Mao Ning said that the system which violates the most basic international norms of space for peaceful purposes. She described as alarmist the US goal to achieve absolute security, which could dismantle the existing global architecture of arms control and destabilize strategic stability.
Fears of a New Arms Race in Orbit
Beijing said that if the U.S does this, space could be turned into a “battlefield” thus putting itself in an uncontrollable race for arms. China also told the U.S. to drop its plans and begin building trust in global strategic relationships.
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Reagan’s Star Wars Reimagined
The Golden Dome is viewed by experts to be a contemporary rebirth of Ronald Reagan 1983 ‘Star Wars’ initiative, the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). Back during the Cold war, space based lasers and such were be conceived as a way of shooting down Soviet missiles but they were thought to have been too costly as well unrealistic at the time.
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Trump’s Legacy or Global Gamble?
Trump says his program is to bring what Reagan began —end everlasting missile shield over American soil. Yet its critics contend it could easily backfire and could heighten global tensions into an era of space militarization. Space: whatever it was, will never be the same and one thing is for sure now- it is not going to be peaceful.
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