I expect this incident to go at least to April 20th. This is NOT a favorable time for negotiations and diplomacy. Venus is the ruling planet of China's chart and thus it is certain that however China handles this serious situation, the outcome will not be favorable for her, especially since she started the whole event under the vibration of a Retrograde Venus. There is a great possibility that the US will give more weapons to Taiwan and that China will not have the next Olympics in their country. This planetary comparison makes for difficult relations and mistrust between both countries.
Solar flares have a tendency to stir up people and emotions.
We have not seen such powerful solar flares for 12 years. Interestingly under the influence of this flare activity, it should be noted that this was the time when Milosevic, that most dark soul who caused 4 wars and incredible carnage, death and destruction in Yugoslavia during his 12-year reign, was forced to surrender to authorities and is now in jail. Now it remains to be seen as to what happens in China. If the situation starts spiraling out of control we could see some rather nasty and serious threats hurled at each country. During the time that Mars is retrograde, frustration occurs especially when confrontation is happening between 2 large nations, as is now the case.