Here is something I've been playing with. I'd love your feedback. I made a new tool that allows you to search for records on a bunch of different distros. The media goes on and on about how the Chinese government is making itself look bad, that they're living in the past, mired in a culture of victimhood, etc. We put a spy plane up just outside their air space, and then we scramble some fighters to fly directly at China.
China thinks they're about to be attacked, and they put some fighters in the air.
Our fighter planes veer off at the last minute, and the spy plane monitors radio signals to see what the Chinese did. We do this again and again, sometime several times a week. Of course China is pissed off. What would the U.S. do if fighter jets came screaming at our borders, missile caps blown off, looking like they were going to hit Los Angeles. We'd shoot them down.