How would an armed conflict between China and Japan play out over the disputed islands in the East China Sea?

Japan conducts routine flights over its airspace, *asterisk+fineprint*.

China conducts routine flights over its airspace, *asterisk+fineprint*.

Japanese maritime surveillance aircraft gets buzzed by Chinese air policing patrol. But this time, they are too aggressive, and an accident happens. Japanese and Chinese both have air crew MIA.

Japan misread Chinese intentions. Scramble fighters for interception!

Everyone has locks on each other. Emotions run high. Somebody has a happy trigger finger. All hell breaks loose. Continue here to see what happens next.

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