It’s not in America’s interest to see a fascist Chinese dictators securing the Enitire South China sea upon which most international trade depends.
We don’t need a shooting war and the majority of Americans are against. Keep putting tariffs on China and make them howl. A war would bankrupt them.
If it’s a shooting war you want send a couple of MOABs into the Three Gorges Dam. Mother Nature and The Yangtze River will do the rest.