--- title: How To Defuse the Conflict in the South China Sea description: How to defuse the conflict over the South China Sea, how high-tech filmmaking hurts storytelling and more. canonical: https://time.com/4414690/how-to-defuse-the-conflict-in-the-south-china-sea/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-20T16:23:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:44.170Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How To Defuse the Conflict in the South China Sea og:description: These are today's five best ideas. og:url: https://time.com/4414690/how-to-defuse-the-conflict-in-the-south-china-sea/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How To Defuse the Conflict in the South China Sea twitter:description: These are today's five best ideas. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How To Defuse the Conflict in the South China Sea by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 20, 2016 4:23 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 20, 2016 4:23 PM UTC **1\.** [**How China can save face and defuse the conflict over the South China Sea.**](http://qz.com/735741/a-decades-old-idea-for-the-south-china-sea-resurfaces-make-a-contested-area-a-marine-park-instead/) By Steve Mollman in Quartz **2\.** [**Is high-tech filmmaking making us forget how to tell good stories?**](http://motherboard.vice.com/read/pixels-and-the-inflation-of-meaning) By Riccardo Manzanotti in Motherboard **3\.** [**How to overcome sovereign borders and wire the world.**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUQTYQxg0dY) By Nicholas Negroponte at the Aspen Ideas Festival **4\.** [**Perfectionism is holding you back. Here’s how to push past it.**](http://www.fastcompany.com/3061892/your-most-productive-self/how-to-train-your-brain-to-push-past-perfectionism) By Vivian Giang in Fast Company **5\.** [**There’s a surprisingly good chance you have a doppelganger.**](http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160712-you-are-surprisingly-likely-to-have-a-living-doppelganger) By Zaria Gorvett in BBC Future  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4414690/how-to-defuse-the-conflict-in-the-south-china-sea/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4414690/how-to-defuse-the-conflict-in-the-south-china-sea/"},"headline":"How To Defuse the Conflict in the South China Sea","datePublished":"2016-07-20T16:23:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:44.170Z","description":"These are today's five best ideas.","url":"https://time.com/4414690/how-to-defuse-the-conflict-in-the-south-china-sea/","keywords":["Innovation","China","borders"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4414690/how-to-defuse-the-conflict-in-the-south-china-sea/","name":"How To Defuse the Conflict in the South China Sea"}}]}] ```