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Source: Bloomberg

8-31-18

What an Ancient Historian Says About the U.S.-China Clash

Who came up with the Thucydides Trap?

Source: The New Yorker

6-13-17 (accessed)

Graham Allison’s warning about “Thucydides’s Trap” is lambasted by the New Yorker

The US and China aren’t headed toward war.

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What an Ancient Historian Says About the U.S.-China Clash

Graham Allison’s warning about “Thucydides’s Trap” is lambasted by the New Yorker