Japan's new long-range missiles put US-China on collision course

In the lead-up to the most consequential U.S.-China summit in years, Japan’s deployment of new long-range missiles is provoking China and raising the risk that the U.S. will get pulled into a cycle of escalation in East Asia.On March 31, Japan deployed its first domestically developed long-range missile, the Type 25, to Camp Kengun in Kumamoto Prefecture, right by the East China Sea. With a range of about 600 miles (up from the 120- mile range of the earlier Type 12 missile), the Type 25 is capa...