John Wilson Lewis and Xue Litai, China's Strategic Seapower: The Politics of Force Modernization in the Nuclear Age (Stanford University Press, 1996) p166 Brian Harvey, China's Space Program - From Conception to Manned Spaceflight (Springer, 2004) p43 The Dongfeng-2 had a range of 1500 kilometers , making it capable of striking Japan from China.