As Donald Trump and Xi Jinping convene in Beijing, a ghost from ancient Greece looms over their high-stakes negotiations. This historic concept, used by the Chinese leader to frame modern tensions, ...

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In his opening remarks at his summit with Donald Trump on May 15, the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, invoked the fifth-century BC Greek historian Thucydides to issue a veiled warning to the US ...

During Donald Trump’s embarrassing trip to China, China’s Secretary General Xi Jinping made a speech, in which he said, “We must not be caught in the Thucydides Trap”. It’s notable in that it places ...

China’s leader reached for Greek history to warn the United States of what can happen when a rising power meets an incumbent one. By Leo Sands As the leaders of the United States and China met in ...

A messy war in the Middle East. Tensions in Taiwan. When the leaders of the world’s two superpowers met in Beijing this week, these were the flashpoints everyone expected they would talk about.

On May 14, Xi Jinping opened his summit with Donald Trump in Beijing by invoking the Thucydides Trap — the idea that a rising power and an established hegemon are structurally destined for conflict.

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(THE CONVERSATION) The so-called Thucydides Trap has become a staple of foreign policy commentary over the past decade or so, regularly invoked to frame the escalating rivalry between the United ...