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US President Donald Trump has strongly criticized Canada for rejecting his proposed “Golden Dome” missile defence system and Canada’s growing economic relationship with China.
The Week reports that Trump earned that the partnership would backfire on them quickly.
Trump said Canada is risking North America’s safety by rejecting the Golden Dome. In a post on his social media platform, he wrote, “Canada is against The Golden Dome being built over Greenland, even though The Golden Dome would protect Canada. Instead, they voted in favour of doing business with China, who will ‘eat them up’ within the first year.”
The “Golden Dome” is a multimillion high-tech missile defence shield proposed by the United States over Greenland, a self-governing territory of Denmark, to create a protective bubble over North America. its key purpose would be to spot and stop advanced threats like ballistic and hypersonic missiles.
According to an AP report, Golden Dome is likely to include ground and space based capabilities to detect and counter missiles at “all four major stages of a potential attack detecting and destroying them before a launch, intercepting them in their earliest stage of flight, stopping them mid-course in the air, or halting them in the final minutes as they descend toward a target”.
The financial commitment for the Golden Dome is staggering. The Trump administration estimates the project will cost about $175 billion. However, a report from the Congressional Budget Office suggests the real cost could be much higher, with just the space-based components potentially costing anywhere from $161 billion over 20 years.
