Russia and China have adopted a joint statement on global strategic stability, in which they criticized US President Donald Trump's "Golden Dome" program, noting its "destabilizing" nature.

"Deeply destabilizing in nature is also the recently announced ‘Golden (Iron) Dome for America’, a large-scale program designed to establish unconstrained, global, deeply layered and multi-domain missile defense system to protect against any missile threats, including all types of missiles from ‘peer and near-peer adversaries,’” reads the aforesaid statement posted on the Kremlin website.

According to the statement of the parties, this means, first of all, "a complete and ultimate rejection to recognize the existence of the inseparable interrelationship between strategic offensive arms and strategic defensive arms, which is one of the central and fundamental principles of maintaining global strategic stability."

In addition, according to the joint statement of Russia and China, the aforementioned project “provides additional impetus to the further development of kinetic and non-kinetic means providing for the left-of-launch defeat of missile weapons and the infrastructure that supports their employment.”

“The situation is further aggravated by the fact that the ‘Golden (Iron) Dome for America’ program also directly envisages significant strengthening of the arsenal of means to conduct combat operations in space, including the development and orbital deployment of interception systems, turning outer space into an environment for placing weapons and an arena for armed confrontation.”

The joint statement emphasizes that Russia and China “oppose the attempts of individual countries to use outer space for armed confrontation and will counter security policies and activities aimed at achieving military superiority, as well as at officially defining and using outer space as a ‘warfighting domain’“.

The “Golden Dome” initiative, established by an executive order of the US President, aims to create a comprehensive shield that will protect the United States from a wide range of missile threats, including ballistic, hypersonic, and advanced cruise missiles.