A Rising China, an Established America, and the Thucydides Trap (opens in new tab)

When the ancient Greek historian Thucydides chronicled the Peloponnesian War, he did not write only about the clash between Athens and Sparta. He documented the fate of the small city-states caught between them in 431BC. Corcyra and Potidaea, neutral territories with no grand strategy of their own, were crushed, annexed, or forced into allegiance as […] The post A Rising China, an Established America, and the Thucydides Trap appeared first on Modern Diplomacy.