A recent Washington Post editorial, “China’s Naval Provocations are Getting too Blatant to Ignore,” suggests that now may be an opportune time for an Incidents at Sea Agreement between the United States and China. Such an accord would mirror the provisions of the U.S.–U.S.S.R. accord, which was signed in Moscow in May 1972 and remains in place with Russia today. However, one could argue such an accord is hardly necessary. The mechanisms that have made the ongoing U.S.-Russia accord successful already exist within a slew of other understandings that have been signed between the United States and China’s Ministry of Defense over the past quarter century.