Taiwan and American Airpower

This article got me thinking:

http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs/defense/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&newspaperUserId=27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7&plckPostId=Blog%3a27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3ab786b890-591a-474d-95ee-00b754d2a188&plckScript=blogScript&plckElementId=blogDest

It argues that in a conflict over Taiwan the US simply could not put enough aircraft onto target to stop the PLAAF overwhelming them through simple attrition.

My question doesn’t regard how likely or plausible you think this situation is. What I want to know is how involved other airforce’s would become in this scenario (obviously apart from the Taiwanese who’d already be fully committed).

The article casually mentions China may attempt to hit US bases in Japan and with Japan already heavily involved in regional defence alongside the US, how likely would they be to get involved?

The article began with a bit about Australia? Would they get involved? Can they even deploy aircraft out that far?

Anyone else? (I half jokingly thought about the UK getting involved if the Chinese shot down a US Rivet Joint being jointly manned by UK personnel).

I know that the article doesn’t take into account a lot of things, so please try and stick to that. Obviously a lot more would be going on, and this (near)total war scenario obviously strikes would be happening against Chinese assets outside of the aircraft in the air that would probably lower the ratios mentioned in the article a bit and land and Sea based SAMs would obviously play a role too.