From Athens to Washington: What Is the ‘Thucydides Trap’ Chinese President Xi Keeps Invoking
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The summit between United States President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Shi Jin Ping, led symbolic messages from panda diplomacy and a banquet that blended Chinese and French touches, calling "the Thosedides trap" as a framework for managing the competition between Washington and Beijing.
Donald Trump's meeting with Xi Jinping at the White House is not just about tariffs, trade or technology disputes. Behind the diplomatic spectacle lies a much deeper question that has been preoccupying internationalists for years: could China's rise lead to an inevitable conflict with the United States, or can the world's two largest powers manage their rivalry without going to war?
In a carefully staged diplomatic theater in Washington, U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping used historical references, including the “Thucydides Trap,” to cover up the deep geopolitical divide separating the two superpowers. Behind public declarations of avoiding conflict, the two leaders attempted to camouflage their destabilizing moves on the geopolitical chessboard for global dominance.
Xi Jinping likes to allude to the Tucídides trap to refer to relations between China and the United States. He did so when Trump visited Beijing in
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