[AussieJoe]

“And how would the military respond fast enough if China takes out communication satellites early in a war?”

With the heavy reliance on sophisticated comms in modern warfare, this is a great question. But, do the Chinese or anyone else have the capacity to take out satellites at will?

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

The Chinese have an ASAT weapon which is a variant of the DF-21 ballistic missile.Another anti-satellite weapon that China is reported to employ is a very powerful laser. The US complained that China was dazzling their spy satellites with lasers it- only a question of ramping up the power and dazzling becomes destroying. The laser is probably not mobile.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

The Chinese also made a anti-ship missile out of the DF-21. It has a range around 2000 miles.It primary design is to take out aircraft carriers and this missile is land based.

[daniel1212]

If they did so by missiles the resultant debris would wreak havoc with anything in lower orbits, thus lasers are the more likely choice.

As for Australia, that would seem a likely target in Empire building, which an financial meltdown of the U.S. could make more attractive to the Chinese. Communism by nature is insecure, and has little or no tolerance for loyalty to anything higher than it, or independence from it, and so it needs to keep expanding its power, and it seems you are quite vulnerable.

Ought to make a people seek the Lord,