Pentagon officials tell us China's recent flight test of a new 6,000-mile-range JL-2 submarine-launched ballistic missile earlier this month was not the only recent troubling development in Beijing's military buildup.
About the same time as the JL-2 test, China also test-fired a new long-range air-to-air missile.
"The missile has over-the-horizon capability, something they have not had before," said one official familiar with the test.
Defense analysts believe the missile, which was not identified by type, could be one of China's new PL-12 air-to-air missiles, an indigenous missile that has beyond-visual-range radar guidance and targeting.

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