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I highly doubt that China would strike Japan directly, especially before securing Taiwan. Any Chinese offensive would instantly reignite the Korean War and draw Taiwan into the fray, while irrevocable destroying any goodwill China maintains with the Philippines, Vietnam, and India, among others.

The campaign would also be a bloodbath as a result of the PLA being forced to rely on supply lines stretched across the East China Sea, and Chinese troops being limited to any gains main during initial amphibious landings. While the JGSDF pales in comparison to China, the home turf advantage, ability to funnel Chinese forces into narrow fronts, and ability to turn major cities into quagmires, would make the entire operation hellish for the PLA and morale.

Instead of a cry for open conflict, China’s comments are probably more of a warning to Japan to not interfere with a Taiwanese offensive, since Japanese bases, airfields, and ports are the lynchpin of any potential American involvement or defensive strategy.

That's what it says on paper but it wouldn't work out that way.

The security council (sans Russia) will not have their hands tied. Anyways China would be fighting NATO+ regardless. International law is no more worth than toilet paper.

Nothing.

Formally those three are the main Axis powers. But personally i would also add Finland, Romania and Hungary, all of which enthusiastically and voluntarily joined forces with the Nazis to invade the USSR.

Also Croatia and Bulgaria who collaborated with the Nazis to mass murder Serbs in Yugoslavia (the Croat fascists then finished the ethnic cleansing they started back in WWII during the Yugoslav wars in the 90s with the help of NATO).

In Asia, Thailand was the main Japanese collaborator.

Finally, Switzerland and Sweden managed to maintain plausible deniability by pretending that they were neutral but in reality both countries helped Nazi Germany a lot economically during the war, but i guess that doesn't suffice to qualify them as aggressor countries...