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The territorial disputes in the South China Sea get much less attention than other crisis points in the region. Yet, it is in the South China Sea, the author argues, that the components of Asia’s changing power dynamics are most concentrated: China’s growing strategic heft and paranoid sense of entitlement; its Southeast Asian neighbors’ hopes and misgivings about China’s regional dominance; and the US' compulsion to meet China’s strategic challenge. The author explains why finding solutions to the South China Sea disputes should be given the highest priority by policy-makers.