China direct strike threat to Australia ‘growing’: report
A report warns that China's missile capabilities pose an increasing direct strike threat to Australia over the next decade.
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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 (June 14, 2026).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 decade as "the DF-27 intermediate-range ballistic missile, and potentially a conventionally armed intercontinental ballistic missile, grow in service numbers", it said.The DF-27 missile has a range of 5,000 to 8,000 kilometres (3,000 to 5,000 miles), the U.S.
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