Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?
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<p>When a rising power threatens to displace a ruling one, the most likely outcome is war. Twelve of 16 cases in which this occurred in the past 500 years ended violently.</p> <p>A perilous trap but uncertain outcome</p> <p>Today, an irresistible rising China is on course to collide with an immovabl