Thucydides Trap: are America and China destined for war?

The Fourcast · May 26, 2023 · 27m

This past week, the G7 - the group of the world’s richest democracies - gathered in Japan to discuss Ukraine, Russia, global affairs, and their increasing concerns about a rising power looking out at them from over the water: China.

This was some of the sternest wording from the G7, and China dismissed it as a smear.

But the West also doesn’t want to completely antagonise and cut off China, with the Australian Prime Minister saying lessons had to be learnt from history.

So, are we entering a new Cold War, where conflict is avoided but tensions remain? Or are we not far off from a catastrophic…