China’s Revised Defense Mobilization Law Touches Nearly Every Sector

China's revised Defence Mobilization Law signals deeper integration of civilian industry into military supply chains and lowers thresholds for wartime activation, directly increasing PLA surge capacity and reducing decision friction for kinetic action in the Taiwan Strait. For Australia, this structural shift in China's war-readiness tilts the Indo-Pacific military balance and raises the credibility of coercive Chinese pressure on Taiwan and regional partners, narrowing Australia's strategic options and making alliance cohesion more critical.