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What trap? US-China relations show conflict is far from inevitable

For a decade, foreign policy circles have treated war between the United States and China as something close to destiny. The theory has a fancy, fashionable name borrowed from ancient Greece: the “Thucydides Trap” – the idea that a rising power and an established one are fated to collide, the way two articulated lorrie

What trap? US-China relations show conflict is far from inevitable

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