Taiwan & Thucydides Trap: How close have the US and China come to conflict before?

For decades, Taiwan has been one of the world’s most dangerous fault lines, a small island sitting at the centre of a growing rivalry between the world’s rising superpower and its reigning one.Now, tension has returned sharply to the global spotlight after Chinese President Xi Jinping appeared to invoke the idea of the “Thucydides Trap” […]

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Xi Jinping: What is the ‘Thucydides Trap’? Why Xi Jinping brought it up during talks with Donald Trump in Beijing

When Chinese President Xi Jinping met US President Donald Trump in Beijing on Thursday, one phrase unexpectedly dominated strategic discussions between the world’s two biggest powers: the “Thucydides Trap”.“Whether China and the United States can transcend the so-called Thucydides Trap and create a new normalization of relations between major powers; whether we can join hands […]

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