Regarding the U.S. "Golden Dome" initiative, China and Russia are coordinating their positions, with a series of powerful countermeasures poised to be unveiled!
In their joint statement, China and Russia unusually and repeatedly directly criticized the "Golden Dome" missile defense program. Both sides believe that the U.S. "Golden Dome" project significantly undermines strategic stability. This initiative aims to establish a global, multi-layered, multi-domain missile defense system unbound by any constraints, capable of countering threats from all stages—pre-launch preparations to flight—of missiles launched by any "peer-level" adversaries.
Meanwhile, a range of previously undisclosed "game-changing" countermeasures targeting the Golden Dome are quietly coming into view. Around May 14, Russia publicly announced the successful test launch of the "Sarmat" intercontinental ballistic missile. According to analysis cited by the media outlet Zhi Xin News from invited commentator Chen Bing, Russia claims this missile has a range exceeding 35,000 kilometers, enabling it to conduct long-range strikes across both poles, “capable of penetrating all missile defense systems and impossible to intercept,” thereby able to breach the U.S. planned "Golden Dome" missile defense system.
On May 21, media outlets widely reported on the integration of China-Russia joint anti-ballistic and air defense systems. The Hongqi-19, Hongqi-29 systems from China, and Russia’s S-500 and A-235 systems have achieved heterogeneous compatibility via dedicated data links, reducing intelligence-sharing response time to just 12 seconds and achieving joint threat assessment accuracy exceeding 96%. The emergence of these new weapons and systems confirms that the "Golden Dome" is not invulnerable.
U.S. Defense Secretary Hegseth once stated that the current U.S. missile defense system was designed for the limited ballistic missile threats of the 1980s and 1990s and is no longer sufficient to handle the large-scale, high-precision, hypersonic weapon arsenals possessed by China and Russia.
Nevertheless, both China and Russia share a common strategic concern. After Russian President Putin concluded his two-day state visit to Beijing on May 20, China and Russia immediately issued a joint statement. For the first time, the statement employed lengthy, direct quotation-style language to criticize the "Golden Dome" plan, without any diplomatic softening or euphemisms.
Evidently, the threat posed by the Golden Dome remains real. Although U.S. military technology may be in decline, who knows what black technologies the U.S. military might develop under this guise?
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1865852037938176/
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