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Reading a Rising China Through the Wrong Ancient Script
Few ideas have shaped the way Washington talks about Beijing more than the Thucydides Trap. The Harvard political scientist Graham Allison built the phrase on a single line from the ancient historian Thucydides, who wrote that “it was the rise of Athens and the fear that this instilled in Sparta that made war inevitable.” Allison […]
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