Hegseth responds to China’s Golden Dome criticism, lauds Fort Bragg name change

Defense Minister Beit Higseth denied China’s demand that the golden dome would turn an area into a “war zone.”

“All we care about is to protect the homeland,” Higseth told Fox News Digital while leaving a trip to Fort Prague, North Carolina.

President Donald Trump said that defense for a long time for the homeland is very important to the “first America” ​​policy, and the golden dome is an investment in generations.

Chinese Foreign Minister Mao Ning claimed this week that the golden dome has a “strong offensive nature and violates the principle of peaceful use in the outer space treaty.”

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Mao said: “The project will increase the risk of turning space into a war zone, establishing a space arms race, shaking the security system and combating international weapons.” “We urge the United States to abandon the development and publication of the global control system.”

Trump, along with Higseth, issued some details about the project earlier in the week, explaining that there is an ambitious plan to complete the missile defense shield in three years for $ 125 billion.

Higseth also responded to a decline because of his decision to start serving a monthly Christian prayer in the Pentagon, which sparked a discussion about religious freedom and the separation of the church and the state.

“We have said that very publicly, and we have said that with great pride,” he said. “The stabbing to heaven, to God, is a long tradition in our army,” adding that George Washington got his knee alongside his continental forces.

“I appeal to Jesus Christ for that protection, to talk about that word and be open and ready to talk about it in the Pentagon. If they want to criticize that, they are on the wrong side.”

His remarks came after he addressed the eighty -eighth division, an atmosphere of parachute in the army during the “American Week”.

There, he celebrated the change of the name North Carolina base from Fort Liberty to Fort Prague.

Defense Minister Beit Higseth speaks as a declaration with President Donald Trump regarding the Golden missile defense shield at the White House Oval Office in Washington, DC, May 20, 2025. (Reuters/Kevin Lamark)

“It is Fort Prague again,” Higseth said of chants from the crowd.

“There is nothing wrong with Fort Liberty. Give me freedom or give me death. I love it.” “But give me Fort Prague every day of the week.”

He also addressed critics who said that he had no strategic experience to work as defense minister, and took a bullet on the media.

“Our friends are in the fake media here,” said Higseth. “Some of them said,” Critics may say that you cannot choose a major in the army to be the Minister of Defense. It should be, well, one of the many generals, members of congress, business leaders or corporate leaders. “

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“One of the criticisms was that we needed a person who could think strategically, a big picture.

I told a crowd of parachute in the army, “I was in this composition, eased my knees, took a deep breath, stare on the horizon, sweating and wondering time, but I cannot move my arms.

The shades perform a pass in the excavation review during the visits of the PETE HegSth Minister. (A small first -class officer Alexander Kubza/Navy)

HegSeth has announced an increase in the wage for jumping for umbrellas for more crowd chants.

The wage of the dangerous incentives, known as the “jumping wage” of the army forces jumping, will increase from $ 150 a month to $ 200.

The senior parachutes who train and perform jumping will witness a wage increase from $ 150 to $ 300.

“Here are our paratroopers, our managers, who do difficult things in difficult places that most Americans can never imagine,” said Higseth.

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Since 2006, the army has maintained 56,756 positions of paid umbrellas, according to General Gregory Anderson, head of the Eighteenth Mobile Force. This number will decrease by 20,000, allowing an increase in salary for those who keep the jumping state.

Anderson told reporters that limited aircraft ability and resources means “a deterioration in efficiency.” “The goal must be really good quality on the quantity.”