The Thucydides Trap: Evaluating China’s Ambitions and American Resilience
The Geopolitical Narrative of Power Transitions Chinese President Xi Jinping has increasingly championed the concept of the ‘Thucydides Trap,’ a term coined by political scientist Graham Allison to describe the inevitable tension that occurs when a rising power threatens to displace an established one. This narrative, framed within Beijing’s state-led discourse, posits that the United…