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Imagine you are a Chinese military leader and you are war-gaming a conflict in which the United States makes a show of force by sending a carrier strike group towards the Paracel islands. Use one war theorist to inform your response to the United States from a Chinese military perspective.

Explain why you chose that particular theorist in support of your response.

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The solution provides information, assistance and advise in tackling the task (see above), on the topic of Chinese war theory (military) as applicable in a war gaming simulation over response to US on Paracel Islands and South China Sea conflict. Resources are listed for further exploration of the topic. A word version is attached.

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Dear Student,
Hi and thank you for using BrainMass. The solution below should get you started. In this particular task, you are asking for help in putting together a discussion on Chinese military leadership and war theories. I suggest using simple outline:
1. About the conflict/war game - 100 words
2. War theorist/response - 200 words
3. Other considerations (cultural/historical) - 100 words
4. Resources
This outline should yield 400 words that you need. You can use the listed resources to further explore the topic. All the best with your studies.
Sincerely.
AE 105878/Xenia Jones

War Gaming Perspectives: Paracel Islands
The issue of the ownership of the Paracel and the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea has been a source of dispute between China, Vietnam, The Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia and Brunei dating back to the pre-cold war period. While the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea imbues each of the claimants with sovereignty as well as exploration and economic rights of 200 nautical miles (the Exclusive Economic Zone) from the ...

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