China launches ballistic missile test, Australia and New Zealand concerned

❗️China launches a submarine-launched ballistic missile “Julang-3” from a Type 094 nuclear-powered submarine of the PLA Navy from the Lüshun naval base area in the Yellow Sea to the Pacific Ocean.🇨🇳🚀🔥

The launch is timed to coincide with the 89th anniversary of the “July 7… pic.twitter.com/Fa5sKXp2KC

— Aleksey The Great 🇷🇺🎖 (@aleksthgrt) July 6, 2026

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Deutsche Welle reported the following:

China’s missile test causes concern in Pacific nations

7 July 2026

On Monday, the Chinese Navy conducted a missile test in the South Pacific, with state media reporting that a nuclear submarine fired a missile carrying a dummy warhead into international waters.

The test quickly drew harsh criticism from US allies in the Pacific. Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong said the Chinese test was destabilizing for regional security. Japan called on China to reconsider its actions.

New Zealand said it does not want China to use the South Pacific as a testing ground for missiles. “We are deeply concerned about China’s tests of nuclear-capable weapons in the South Pacific,” Foreign Minister Winston Peters said in Wellington. …

“It is a submarine-launched intercontinental ballistic missile of the Julang (JL)-3 series,” wrote Lieutenant Colonel Zhang Junshe a researcher with the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Naval Military Academic Research Institute. …

China wants to bring about change in the Pacific. The strong military presence of the US and its allies on China’s doorstep is a cause for concern in Beijing.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) wants to ensure that it is capable of retaliating against military first strikes and responding with what Beijing considers an appropriate counterattack. At the same time, China, a nuclear power, has promised not to launch a nuclear first strike.

“China is currently aggressively challenging the US-led regional security architecture on various levels,” wrote Felix Heiduk, head of the Asia Research Group at the Berlin-based think tank Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), in 2024. …

Heiduk wrote in 2024 that Beijing aims to achieve its strategic goal by promoting an alternative regional order ‘by and for Asians’ with China at the helm, while labeling this US-led order a ‘relic of the Cold War.’

This strategy includes the rearmament of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), the expansion of bilateral security partnerships, and the militarization of large parts of the South China Sea.

Security concerns are also growing in the South Pacific.

“The PLA’s missile force is China’s most effective means of launching long-range strikes against Australia,” writes Sam Roggeveen and David Vallance of the Australian think tank Lowy Institute in a June 2026 study. “In the event of a major regional conflict, bases throughout northern Australia would be targets for the PLA.” https://www.dw.com/en/chinas-missile-test-builds-on-pacific-nuclear-deterrence/a-77861936

Notice also:

Understanding the Chinese military threat to Australia

• China’s ability to direct military force against Australia operates primarily through domains other than direct strikes on the Australian landmass. Its ability to interdict Australia’s maritime trade, sever undersea communications infrastructure, conduct sophisticated cyber operations, and project naval power into Australian waters is robust and will grow substantially over the coming decade.
• China can already strike northern Australia with ballistic missiles deployed to its South China Sea outposts, and its capacity to strike the Australian landmass from Chinese territory will 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.
• Two factors could quickly and dramatically escalate the strike threat against the Australian landmass: China could field a new long-range bomber (a crewed or drone aircraft), or it could deploy existing bombers and missiles to bases closer to Australia.
• China’s military build-up has already eroded US military primacy in the Indo-Pacific, increased the threat to Taiwan, and created structural pressure on regional states to accommodate Beijing’s preferences. These shifts affect Australian security regardless of China’s capacity to strike Australian territory. …

The direct strike threat to Australian territory is real and growing but should be understood within this broader context. The primary conventional strike threat over the next decade will come from Chinese missiles, fired from surface ships, submarines, and potentially from Chinese territory via the DF-27 intermediate-range ballistic missile.06/14/26 https://www.lowyinstitute.org/publications/understanding-the-chinese-military-threat-to-australia

Australia hopes that the USA will always be able to defend it.

But, this alliance will not last as long as Australia seems to hope.

China has lashed out at Australia for its positions as well as ties to the USA over the past decade or so.

Years ago, China’s Global Times actually wrote:

‘Paper cat’ Australia will learn its lesson …

2016/7/30

Australia is a unique country with an inglorious history. It was at first an offshore prison of the UK and then became its colony, a source of raw materials, overseas market and land of investment. This country was established through uncivilized means, in a process filled with the tears of the aboriginals. …

Analysts say that besides trying to please the US, it also intends to suppress China …

Australia is not even a “paper tiger,” it’s only a “paper cat” at best. … Australia has unexpectedly made itself a pioneer of hurting China’s interest with a fiercer attitude than countries directly involved in the South China Sea dispute. But this paper cat won’t last. http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/997320.shtml

So, China is indicating that Australia is basically illegitimate (established through uncivilized means) and that its power basically means nothing to China. Furthermore, China must take revenge and let it know it’s wrong.

Back in 2009 when Hillary Clinton was US Secretary of State, … I wrote that China may take over Australia. Since I wrote that, my belief in that outcome has increased.

On June 24, 2010, the day it was announced that she became Prime Minister of Australia, I warned that I felt that Julia Gillard would take steps to fulfill prophecies that also could get the Chinese interested in taking over Australia (see Australia Now Has a Female Prime Minister: Prophetic Ramifications?).

And that happened.

On November 10, 2011, I posted the following:

The USA is getting concerned about China enough to station troops in Australia …

Relying more on a declining military power is not the answer for Australia.  And even if the presence is not huge, just having US troops ‘permanently’ stationed in Australia shows more reliance by Australia on the USA’s military. …

The Australians themselves have had various concerns about China, but while they seem to feel that allowing the USA in the country in a bigger way will protect them, I have a different view.  The presence of US troops in China may be used as part of its possible future justification for taking the land of Australia.  The Chinese may claim something to the effect that Australia is really a military pawn/representative of the USA and thus, since the USA owes them money, taking over Australia will help settle that debt.

China is rising up and the USA is declining militarily relative to it and Europe right now. This does not bode well for the USA nor its allies like Australia.  The implication for Australia is more than profound–the implications are disastrous.

The Bible suggests that the land of the Anglo-descended peoples will be conquered and divided (Daniel 11:39; Lamentations 4:16; Joel 3:2-3; Amos 7:17; Ezekiel 5:1-2,12; 6:8; Ezekiel 22:13-15; )

Without national repentance, the Australia is doomed. Period. (Thiel B. Obama Putting ‘Permanent’ Troops in Australia Because of China, But… November 10, 2011)

About a week later, the Chinese fulfilled the prediction I made on June 24, 2010:

November 17, 2011

A Marine Base for Australia Irritates China

DARWIN, Australia — Fresh from announcing an expanded American military presence in Australia, a plan that has angered China, President Obama came to this remote northern town that will be the base of operations…

The Global Times, a state-run news organization known for its nationalist and bellicose commentaries, issued a stronger reaction in an editorial, saying that Australia should be cautious about allowing the United States to use bases there to “harm China” and that it risked getting “caught in the cross-fire.”  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/18/world/asia/obama-addresses-troops-at-final-stop-in-australia.html

Related to the above, on November 11, 2011, I posted the following:

China is rising up and the USA is declining militarily relative to it and Europe right now. This does not bode well for the USA nor its allies like Australia. The implication for Australia is more than profound–the implications are disastrous.  …

Without national repentance, the Australia is doomed. Period. So is the USA. …

Many do not wish to accept that, either here in the USA, over in New Zealand, or in Australia, but it is the truth. These nations will be taken over, and it may be that China will control part of the land. (Thiel B. Australia accepts US troops, China not pleased. November 11, 2011)

I basically wrote the warnings about Australia, because Global Times was correct that it was originally established by the United Kingdom and became a British colony. Because of biblical prophecies to the B’rit ish, the ‘covenant people’ (for some details, watch British are the Covenant People ), I was aware that certain prophecies that show blessings and cursings to the the descendants of Joseph’s son Ephraim would impact Australia (see also Anglo – America in Prophecy & the Lost Tribes of Israel).

Although I personally was unaware of it until July 14, 2016, in February 1963, the old Radio Church of God earlier warned of a threat from Asia in general, and China in particular, to Australia:

Simply because of her geographical situation, Australia is a land of opportunity. Yes, OPPORTUNITY- opportunity for the teeming masses of Asia! …

lndonesia is only ONE of Australia’s worries!

Still further to the north lies the sprawling mainland of Red China. Standing on the Baok of China, like a sentinel on the alert, is the booming, highly industrialized nation of Japan with its progressive millions!

Australia is in trouble-and doesn’t know it! (Armstrong GT. Australia’s Deadly Peril! Plain Truth, February 1963, p. 9)

What if Britain Enters the Common Market? …

Faced with this potential effect of the Common Market-Australia has been FORCED to look hopefully toward ASIA for new and expanded outlets for its produce! …

Australia, like all of Israel, is headed toward captivity! …

Just as ancient Israel made the mistake of seeking to the Gentile nations for her protection, making pacts and treaties, instead of trusting in God-so is modern-day Israel guilty of the same sin! Australia at the present time is linked with Gentile nations as a member of SEATO, the Southeast Asian Treaty Organization. She like other nations of Israel, is looking to Gentile nations for protection from her potential enemies.

This practice God condemns. …

While the United States and Great Britain are faced with the prophesied revival of the “beast,” a union of ten powerful nations in Europe, forming the rebuilding of the ancient Roman Empire, Australia may well be taken over by an entirely different enemy! Australia, trying to populate and industrialize to stave off Communism, may become the SLAVES OF COMMUNISTS! And -make no mistake about it-aggression is actually BEING PLANNED against Australia! (Armstrong GT. Australia’s Deadly Peril! Plain Truth, February 1963, pp. 42-44)

Well, Britain did enter the old Common Market and as the 1963 article indicated, Australia has become more and more dependent upon Asian markets. Furthermore, as the 1963 article suggested, Australia is becoming vulnerable for captivity from China.’

The USA, UK, and Australia formed a military alliance called AUKUS back in September of 2021. Related to that, we put out the following video: AUKUS sparking European military.

Although I personally was unaware of it until July 23, 2023, back in 1960, the late Garner Ted Armstrong also wrote:

The Australian people have seen the way the United States has FAILED to stand up to the Communists in IndoChina, the Mideast, Hungary, and, in many instances, in acts of aggression against unarmed American airplanes or even civilian personnel. …

The United States … may become totally unable to protect Australia! While the United States and Great Britain are faced with the prophesied revival of the “beast,” … in Europe, forming the rebuilding of the ancient Roman Empire, Australia may well be taken over by an entirely different enemy! Australia, trying to populate and industrialize to stave off Communism, may become the SLAVES OF COMMUNISTS! (Armstrong GT. Populate or Perish! Plain Truth, January 1960)

Consider also the following:

14 All your lovers have forgotten you;
They do not seek you;
For I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy,
With the chastisement of a cruel one,
For the multitude of your iniquities,
Because your sins have increased. (Jeremiah 30:14)

Yes, Australia’s sins have been increasing. Its allies will forsake her–and partially because the USA and UK, themselves, will not be in a position to do so.

Australia hopes to defend itself, but realizes that it cannot defeat China on its own.

While carnally speaking, reliance on the military of the USA would seem to make sense, Bible prophecy shows that will not succeed, not too many years from now. The prophetic reality is that the US military will NOT be able to protect Australia, the UK, and other parts of the world in the future.

Events are aligning for various curses, like Australia losing its sovereignty and land (cf. Daniel 11:39; Lamentations 4:16; Joel 3:2-3; Amos 7:17; Ezekiel 5:1-2,12; 6:8; Ezekiel 22:13-15). And the Chinese threats are proof of that.

Back in 2016, the Continuing Church of God put out the following video on our Bible News Prophecy YouTube channel:

Are Chinese threats against Australia for real?