Commentary In May 2014, I quit kidding myself that China was at war with the United States. I realized China intended to dominate the world by mandating the terms of international engagement. This meant China was at war with the world—moderating treaties, legal notions, and productive trust be damned. May 2014’s triggering event: 70 or so Chinese vessels escorted an oil-drilling ship into waters claimed by both Vietnam and China—with Vietnam’s claim being more credible and diplomatically defensible. Vietnam reported the Chinese flotilla included seven armed coast guard and navy ships—seven warships. The inclusion of warships makes a case that the incursion was an act of war. The invading drill ship anchored 120 miles off the Vietnamese coast, inside Vietnam’s 200-mile Exclusive Economic Zone as defined by the 1982 U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea. China signed that treaty and promised to respect it. The war-making bottom line: …