Thucydides Trap

Are the US and China destined for war?


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Thucydides Trap[edit]
He coined the phrase Thucydides Trap where a rising power causes fear in an established power which escalates toward war. Thucydides wrote: "What made war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta."[2]

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Thucydides Trap