Very interesting, well laid out. Lists the actual stakes. On a tangent from Easton's chapter, he writes:

A PLA drone flies over the Penghu Islands near Taiwan’s main island and is shot down by a ROC Air
Force F-16. Beijing declares a “selective, temporary maritime and air exclusion zone” around Taiwan and floods the Taiwan Strait with thousands of fishing vessels, some of which turn out to be unmanned, and remotely piloted aircraft. Clashes begin and quickly.

I think it will be something very much like that, though can you even shoot down a drone with an F-16? They're small & they zip around.

Ok, searched that, of all the technologies developed, raptors were the best, but that got banned due to understandable animal rights concerns. Supposedly you can shoot them down with missiles, but it's bloody expensive compared to a drone. Which leaves:

jamming: seems the most logical, but in the not-to-distant-future there will be autonomous drones with no communications links to the operator or a satellite

zapping: a burst of high-powered microwaves to stun a swarm of commercial drones while frying their electrical components

Which enters the murky electromagnetic sphere of technology. Wouldn't it be good to research the consequences of doing that before launching it as a military weapon?