A historical analogy from ancient Greece has become the go-to maxim for understanding the rivalry between the US and China.

China’s leader raised the ancient Greek historian Thucydides when he met the US president in Beijing ...

The world has come to another crossroads,” Chinese President Xi Jinping told U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday, as the two leaders began their summit in Beijing. Then Xi asked: “Can China and ...

May 2026 in Beijing referred to the Thucydides Trap, a metaphor that refers to the inherent tensions and perils when an ...

By Arnaud Bertrand in Switzerland I actually suspect that no-one seriously believes in the existence of the 'Thucydides trap' ...

President Donald Trump met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Thursday morning for the start of a high-stakes summit that runs through Friday.

At the high-stakes summit with President Donald Trump last month in Beijing, President Xi Jinping reached for an esoteric ...

President Trump blamed Joe Biden for making the U.S. "a nation in decline" after Chinese President Xi Jinping warned of the "Thucydides Trap." ...

During their high-stakes meeting in Beijing this week, Chinese President Xi Jinping reportedly asked US President Donald Trump if the two countries could overcome the “Thucydides trap”. This phrase, ...

Thucydides is on a roll these days. The ancient Greek historian of the Peloponnesian War, who lived almost 2,500 years ago, makes the title of Graham Allison’s prominent new volume, Destined for War: ...

Given recent interest in the work of the ancient Athenian soldier-turned-historian Thucydides in the foreign policy community—primarily due to Harvard academic Graham Allison’s popularization of the ...