Commercial ties prevent these sort of incidents from metastasizing into military actions and wars. Actual shooting wars between China, the DPRK and their developed neighbors/US are highly unlikely. We are at the point with China of Cold War style maneuver and gamesmanship with none of the nuclear apocalyptic possibilities.
China’s navy is enough to bully Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam but would not hold up against even the JSDF’s maritime defense force, let alone a US Naval presence.
