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Develop a long-term US strategy using the Ends, Ways, and Means model to address the South China sea crisis.

The crisis scenario is:

In the Spratly island grouping, 92 of approximately 150 land features have remained unoccupied until now.

In waters claimed by China, Vietnam, and the Philippines, six Chinese fishermen have just drowned after their vessel was sunk by the Vietnamese Coast Guard.

China has responded by landing marines on some of the heretofore unoccupied features in the vicinity.

Vietnam has reacted in kind, occupying six additional features. Taiwan and the Philippines don’t want to be left behind, and are planning to grab some new islets as well.

All the claimants are suspicious of one another, but Sino-Vietnamese relations are the worse, and intelligence reports have estimated with high confidence that an armed clash is likely to occur within the next month.

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