China’s Navy Just Shot a Long-Range Ballistic Missile into the South Pacific - The National Interest

China's ballistic-missile test in the South Pacific demonstrates expanding operational reach and signalling intent to project power across the Indo-Pacific, including Australia's strategic neighbourhood and allied territories. This escalates the credibility of military coercion scenarios affecting Taiwan, the Northern Arc, and Australia's maritime defence posture, and may accelerate Pacific Island security realignment away from Beijing.