Thucydides Trap as a new reality of US-Chinese relations
Abstract
History abounds with examples of things that seemed good ideas at the time, but turned out to be disastrous. In 2015, Graham Alison, a political scientist and professor at Harvard University, identified a scenario he called the Thucydides Trap.
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