China's Direct Strike Threat to Australia Growing, Report Finds

China’s direct strike threat to Australia is ‘growing’, think tank report finds

China is capable of a direct missile strike on Australia and the threat is growing as Beijing amasses long-range and hypersonic weapons and builds islands in the South China Sea, an Australian think tank said on Sunday. A Lowy Institute report found the main threat to Australia was from Chinese missiles fired from ships, submarines and a new intermediate-range ballistic missile that could reach the island continent from China. China’s capacity to strike Australia would grow over the next deca...

By Agence France-Presse

China direct strike threat to Australia ‘growing’: report

The DF-27 missile has a range of 5,000 to 8,000 kilometers, the U.S. military said in December.