At his recent meeting with the US President Donald Trump, the Chinese leader Xi Jinping asked: “Can China and the United States transcend the so-called ‘Thucydides Trap’ and forge a new paradigm fo…

El concepto, inspirado en la rivalidad entre Atenas y Esparta hace más de 2.000 años, volvió a encender debates sobre la tensión entre China y EE. UU.

“It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this instilled in Sparta that made war inevitable.” Two thousand five hundred years on, the trap is being set again — and this time…