The Thucydides Trap: Are the U.S. and China Headed for War?

Thursday, September 24, 2015

” If the tectonic shift caused by China’s rise poses a challenge of genuinely Thucydidean proportions, declarations about ‘rebalancing,’ or revitalizing ‘engage and hedge,’ or presidential hopefuls’ calls for more ‘muscular’ or ‘robust’ variants of the same, amount to little more than aspirin treating cancer.”