Sam Roggeveen
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first heard Jun 2026
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Oh, I doubt there would have been much conversation at all.
It would have been just a straight communication that China was about to launch with no conversational negotiation entered into.
This is a standard protocol.
Australia has since objected that China didn't give enough notice, that typically it's 48 hours and China did far less than that.
We don't know why China chose such short notice.
I think one possibility is that 48 hours perhaps gives other countries such as Australia time to put some intelligence collection assets in place.
China may have wanted to avoid that.
We don't know a lot.
In fact, we don't even know what kind of missile this was.
It was either a JL-2 or a JL-3, which is one of the two systems that China has developed for launching missiles
nuclear warheads over intercontinental distances from submarines that are submerged at sea.
And we know roughly that the missile was launched from the South China Sea and in that way was probably intended to avoid overflying Japan.
Typically tests like this are designed to validate systems that are already in service.
So it's probably more likely than not that this was the JL2 system, which is already on board Chinese nuclear submarines and which is designed to, as I said, fire nuclear warheads over very long ranges, long enough to hit the continental United States and by implication also Australia.
Well, it was...
Provocative and it was routine.
It was kind of both.
I mean, let's keep in mind that all countries that have these systems test them regularly.
I mean, the United States undertook four tests of its submarine-launched ballistic missiles just last September, and it's important that they do that.
So, you know, our government has said that this was destabilising and escalatory, and you can understand that from an Australian perspective and from a Pacific perspective.
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