Reading the Russia-Ukraine war through the lens of the Thucydides trap ...

China’s leader raised the ancient Greek historian Thucydides when he met the US president in Beijing ...

The world has come to another crossroads,” Chinese President Xi Jinping told U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday, as the ...

The distinguished political scientist Graham Allison, author of the 2015 Atlantic article “The Thucydides Trap,” argued that ...

China’s leader reached for Greek history to warn the United States of what can happen when a rising power meets an incumbent one.

Chinese President Xi Jinping invoked the “Thucydides Trap” during talks with US President Donald Trump in Beijing, reviving a powerful geopolitical theory warning how rising superpower rivalries can ...

On Thursday, Chinese President Xi Jinping told President Trump ahead of their high-stakes meeting in Beijing that the major question that China and the U.S. will have to answer is whether they can ...

China believes peace is possible, as long as only the United States changes its behavior. When President Donald Trump met ...

What is the Thucydides Trap, can it be used to describe the US-China relationship, and why did Xi invoke it? An expert ...

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 ...

The US and China have been rivals for almost 80 years, but when the countries' leaders met in Beijing on Thursday, Xi Jinping made reference to a far more ancient feud.

Xi has mentioned the "Thucydides Trap" before with regard to US-China relations, dating back to as early as 2014. The term refers to a theory that a rising power and an established hegemon are ...