Victor Gao, the vice-president of a major Chinese think tank, conducts some sabre-rattling in the wake of China's missile test in the Pacific.

The dummy missile was launched by a nuclear submarine.

China has test-fired a nuclear-capable long-range missile with a dummy warhead in the South Pacific, Chinse media has confirmed.

China has test fired a nuclear-capable missile armed with a dummy warhead in the South Pacific just hours after Australia and Fiji inked a mutual defence pact that could grow to…

China has test-launched a nuclear-capable missile in the South Pacific hours after Australia signed a new major defence deal to ward off Beijing’s influence in the region.

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Canberra has made clear its “concern” directly to Beijing after the Chinese military test fired a nuclear capable missile in the South Pacific.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese labels a ballistic missile test carried out by China destabilising and provocative, while the Solomon Islands PM says it is "not the act of a…

China reportedly gave hours' notice before a nuclear-capable launch it calls a "routine" drill.

The timing – on the day the Ocean of Peace Alliance treaty was signed with Fiji – reads as provocation at best, coercion at worst

Canberra has made a direct protest to Beijing over the launch of a nuclear-capable ballistic missile, as the US rebukes China over its nuclear build-up.

While Beijing insists the launch of a nuclear-capable missile is nothing to write home about, its flagship propaganda unit has hailed the test as a display of military might that…

Beijing should be well aware that firing a weapon into the open ocean, thousands of kilometres from its mainland, is deeply provocative.

Beijing’s launching of a missile into the Pacific has drawn widespread and deserved condemnation.

US allies in the Pacific condemned what Beijing has called a "routine" intercontinental ballistic missile test, which comes as China seeks to demonstrate its growing military…

China has repeatedly called out the AUKUS nuclear submarine deal between Australia, the U.S. and the U.K. as violating the treaty.

The answer depends on who’s watching, says this academic.

Beijing plays down test but is unlikely to give up on expanding its influence across the Pacific region

Victor Gao, the vice-president of a major Chinese think tank, conducts some sabre-rattling in the wake of China's missile test in the Pacific.

Any country daring to wage nuclear war on China would face “annihilation” according to one Chinese academic who did not mince his words during a candid interview on the ABC.