China’s new white paper entitled “Arms Control, Disarmament, and Nonproliferation in the New Era,” and released on Nov. 27, among other things denounces U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Gold Dome” missile defense scheme, in combination with U.S. plans to forward deploy long range missiles in both the western Pacific and Europe, as a threat to global stability. “After the Cold War, a certain country [the United States—ed.] withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM Treaty) and the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty) and developed global strategic missile defense capabilities, blurring the line between missile defense and strategic offense on purpose and stirring up confrontation among major countries.”
It also notes that this “certain country has advanced the Golden Dome global missile defense system without restraint and sought to deploy weapons in outer space, severely threatening outer space security. It has promoted the forward deployment of intermediate-range missile systems in the Asia-Pacific region and Europe and leveraged the military alliance system to facilitate the proliferation of related weapon systems and technologies, undermining the global strategic balance and stability.
