{"id":138773,"date":"2025-10-20T21:30:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T21:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=138773"},"modified":"2025-10-20T21:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T21:30:13","slug":"to-avert-war-the-west-must-shatter-the-mirror-by-which-it-views-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=138773","title":{"rendered":"To avert war, the West must shatter the mirror by which it views China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIn the shadow of escalating tensions between the United States and China, Graham Allison\u2019s concept of the Thucydides Trap has become a staple of geopolitical discourse. Coined by the Harvard scholar, the term evokes the ancient Greek historian Thucydides\u2019 observation that \u201cit was the rise of Athens and the fear that this instilled in Sparta that made war inevitable\u201d.<br \/>\nAllison\u2019s study of 16 historical cases, where a rising power challenged a ruling one, found war in 12 instances. He warns that&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/china-opinion\/article\/3329612\/avert-war-west-must-shatter-mirror-which-it-views-china?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIn the shadow of escalating tensions between the United States and China, Graham Allison\u2019s concept of the Thucydides Trap has become a staple of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138773"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}