China Just Cracked Trump’s Golden Dome Defense

by China and Geopolitics with Danny Haiphong [5-27-2025 published].

(Based upon my training in physics and having worked for many years in the Boston hi-tech industry and having monitored many of the hi-tech advances, from the beginning I said the Trump's Golden Dome would not work. Only the military industry will benefit with all of the $money sent their way. We know from past major projects that the initial cost estimates are always LOW, so you can take Trump's cost estimates and delivery time with a grain of salt.

What follows are just a few reasons why Trump should abandon this Golden Dome project. Which 'enemies' is Trump concerned about? He keeps wanting to focus on China, yet his real concern with China is that their manufacturing capacity is more advanced and far exceeds the US and there is no way that the US can overtake China in all of these areas for a whole host of reasons.

Even if you consider China, Russia & Iran, none of those countries are interested in attacking us militarily. The only reason we might get into a military conflict with any of those countries is if the US provoked them to a point where they were forced to respond. In that case, it could easily escalate into a nuclear conflict where his Golden Dome would be useless. — RAD)

Scientists at China’s Zhejiang University have created a composite, multi-layered, heat-absorbing stealth material they say can evade detection by infrared and microwave systems at long ranges.

The best part? It operates at temperatures up to 700 °C.

That’s bad news for Golden Dome, which will rely on ground and space-based early warning, tracking, fire control and AESA radars to detect and track threats.

Without help from its eyes and ears, Golden Dome’s interceptors would be essentially useless and firing blind.

ANTI-GOLDEN DOME TOOLKIT

China already has an array of means to render Golden Dome useless, like:

pairing ICBMs or carrier-killer missiles with electronic warfare drones or aircraft,

decoy/dummy warheads

cyber warfare to jam radar, spoof sensors, mimic missile signatures and suppress communications.

China could even announce a drone and missile buildup to simply overwhelm US defenses and exhaust interceptors. It worked for Moscow when Reagan toyed with his Strategic Defense Initiative in the 80s. It can work for Beijing against Trump’s Golden Dome.

STRIKING THE DOME ITSELF

The US system could be targeted with:

ground/space-based anti-satellite weapons (missiles, killer satellites)

hypersonic weapons that maneuver to evade interception

laser & microwave weapons targeting sensors

sabotage & cyber ops

♟ ONLY WINNING MOVE IS NOT TO PLAY

Trump sees Golden Dome as a magical weapon with which to defend America. In reality, it will undermine strategic stability, since its real goal is to give the US the ability to launch first strike attacks with a false sense of impunity.

Unless it’s cancelled, the Golden Dome will trigger a new arms race, pushing rivals to:

build more warheads to saturate US defenses

create new hypersonic weapons to evade it

develop decoys, Multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles, EW & radar-absorbing materials to defeat it

As for the US, it will spend $831B (CBO estimate) on a system that doesn’t work.